Toxicity of CdS/ZnS Quantum Dots in vivo:a Caenorhabditis elegans Study

ZHANG Congfen, FANG Pingchang, GAO Yingbin, ZHENG Shuang, LUO Xuegang

Acta Laser Biology Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5) : 475-480.

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Acta Laser Biology Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5) : 475-480.

Toxicity of CdS/ZnS Quantum Dots in vivo:a Caenorhabditis elegans Study

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With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, more and more materials including nanomaterials, heavy metals and biomass materials have been exposed in our life. In order to study the influencing mechanism of these materials in biological tissue, we investigated the biosafety of quantum dots materials. The aims were to assess  physiological behavior and some gene expressions of Caenorhabditis elegans with quantum dots CdS/ZnS expoure. The results showed that the quantum dots inhited the biological behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans, and upregulated the expression of some genes including the cytotoxic gene, stressrelated gene and development related gene.The body length,headswimming rate and body bending of C.elegans was down to (0.48±0.099) mm, (15.83±6.76) times/min and (7.72±1.12) times/20 s, from the control of (0.64±0.072) mm,(55.94±7.17) times/min and (9.95±2.42) times/20 s respectviely. And, the gene transcript of GST-1, daf-21, HSP-16.4 was upregulation to 15.33, 19.51 and 35.01 folds respectviely with 3.33 nmol/L CdS/ZnS quantum dots exposure. This work highlights the utility of the Caenorhabditis elegans model as a multiflexible platform to allow noninvasively imaging and monitoring in vivo consequences of engineered nanomaterials.

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ZHANG Congfen, FANG Pingchang, GAO Yingbin, ZHENG Shuang, LUO Xuegang. Toxicity of CdS/ZnS Quantum Dots in vivo:a Caenorhabditis elegans Study[J]. Acta Laser Biology Sinica. 2019, 28(5): 475-480
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