Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticle Toxicity in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model
Sen-Ting Huang, Jian-He Lu, Sherwin M Jualo, Lemmuel L Tayo, Wan-Nurdiyana-Wan Mansor, Yi-Chieh Lai, Chih-Lung Wang, How-Ran Chao, Demetrio Raldúa, Xiaojun Luo · 2023
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Sen-Ting Huang and co-authors report a 2023 study on the toxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in a tiny worm used as a lab model. The compound fills foods, cosmetics, and paints, yet its nano form may harm people and nature. The worms let the team test two forms at once: a shop-bought form and one made in the lab.
Worms were exposed to a range of doses in water. Survival and body length held steady at all doses for both forms. Breeding output and movement, in body bends and head thrashes, fell as dose rose, and lifespan shortened. A panel of stress and detox genes switched on more strongly, most of all for the shop-bought form at a mid dose. That form looks the more toxic of the two in this model.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sen-Ting Huang, Jian-He Lu, Sherwin M Jualo, Lemmuel L Tayo, Wan-Nurdiyana-Wan Mansor, Yi-Chieh Lai, Chih-Lung Wang, How-Ran Chao, Demetrio Raldúa, Xiaojun Luo |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |