Nano-Hybrid Au@LCCs Systems Displaying Anti-Inflammatory Activity

Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) have received great attention owing to their biocompatible nature, environmental, and widespread biomedical applications. Au NPs are known as capable to regulate inflammatory responses in several tissues and organs; interestingly, lower toxicity in conjunction with anti-i...

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Published inMaterials Vol. 15; no. 10; p. 3701
Main Authors Condorelli, Marcello, Speciale, Antonio, Cimino, Francesco, Muscarà, Claudia, Fazio, Enza, D'Urso, Luisa, Corsaro, Carmelo, Neri, Giulia, Mezzasalma, Angela Maria, Compagnini, Giuseppe, Neri, Fortunato, Saija, Antonina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 22.05.2022
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Summary:Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) have received great attention owing to their biocompatible nature, environmental, and widespread biomedical applications. Au NPs are known as capable to regulate inflammatory responses in several tissues and organs; interestingly, lower toxicity in conjunction with anti-inflammatory effects was reported to occur with Au NPs treatment. Several variables drive this benefit-risk balance, including Au NPs physicochemical properties such as their morphology, surface chemistry, and charge. In our research we prepared hybrid Au@LCC nanocolloids by the Pulsed Laser Ablation, which emerged as a suitable chemically clean technique to produce ligand-free or functionalized nanomaterials, with tight control on their properties (product purity, crystal structure selectivity, particle size distribution). Here, for the first time to our knowledge, we have investigated the bioproperties of Au@LCCs. When tested in vitro on intestinal epithelial cells exposed to TNF-α, Au@LCCs sample at the ratio of 2.6:1 showed a significantly reduced TNF gene expression and induced antioxidant heme oxygenase-1 gene expression better than the 1:1 dispersion. Although deeper investigations are needed, these findings indicate that the functionalization with LCCs allows a better interaction of Au NPs with targets involved in the cell redox status and inflammatory signaling.
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma15103701