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ArticleScientific reports2016

Cobalt oxide nanoparticles can enter inside the cells by crossing plasma membranes.

Elena Bossi, Daniele Zanella, Rosalba Gornati, Giovanni Bernardini

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elena BossiDepartment of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Via Dunant 3, Varese, Italy.
Daniele ZanellaDepartment of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Via Dunant 3, Varese, Italy.
Rosalba GornatiDepartment of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Via Dunant 3, Varese, Italy.
Giovanni BernardiniDepartment of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Via Dunant 3, Varese, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability of nanoparticles (NPs) to be promptly uptaken by the cells makes them both dangerous and useful to human health. It was recently postulated that some NPs might cross the plasma membrane also by a non-endocytotic pathway gaining access to the cytoplasm. To this aim, after having filled mature Xenopus oocytes with Calcein, whose fluorescence is strongly quenched by divalent metal ions, we have exposed them to different cobalt NPs quantifying quenching as evidence of the increase of the concentration of Co(2+) released by the NPs that entered into the cytoplasm. We demonstrated that cobalt oxide NPs, but not cobalt nor cobalt oxide NPs that were surrounded by a protein corona, can indeed cross plasma membranes.

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CobaltMetal NanoparticlesOxidesAnimalsCell MembraneCell Membrane PermeabilityCytoplasmFluoresceinsIonsOocytesProtein CoronaXenopusCobaltcobalt oxideFluoresceinsfluorexonIonsOxidesProtein Corona

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PMID26924527
PMCPMC4770291

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