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ArticleJournal of agricultural and food chemistry2020

Physicochemical and Morphological Transformations of Chitosan Nanoparticles across the Gastrointestinal Tract and Cellular Toxicity in an In Vitro Model of the Small Intestinal Epithelium.

Zhongyuan Guo, Xiaoqiong Cao, Glen M DeLoid, Kaarunya Sampathkumar, Kee Woei Ng, Say Chye Joachim Loo, Philip Demokritou

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Article in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Zhongyuan GuoCenter for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health , Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3437-8266
Xiaoqiong CaoCenter for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health , Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.
Glen M DeLoidCenter for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health , Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-9172
Kaarunya SampathkumarSchool of Materials Science and Engineering , Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue , Singapore 639798 , Singapore.
Kee Woei NgCenter for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health , Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7276-3563
Say Chye Joachim LooSchool of Materials Science and Engineering , Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue , Singapore 639798 , Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5300-1275
Philip DemokritouCenter for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health , Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.

Funding

Engineered Nanomaterial Synthesis, Characterization and Method Development Center for Nano-safety ResearchU24ES026946 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI DEMOKRITOU, PHILIP · 2016 to 2020
$3.8M
NIEHS NIH HHS U24 ES026946
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoscale chitosan materials exhibit size-specific properties that make them useful in agri-food and biomedical applications. Chitosan nanoparticles (Chnps) are being explored as nanocarrier platforms to increase oral bioavailability of drugs and nutraceuticals, but little is known of their fate and transformations in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) or of their potential toxicity. Here, the GIT fate and cytotoxicity of Chnps, soluble starch-coated Chnps (SS-Chnps), and bulk chitosan powder (Chp), were assessed using a 3-phase simulated digestion and an in vitro cellular small intestinal epithelium model. Physico-chemical characterization revealed dissolution of Chp, but not of Chnps or SS-Chnps, during the gastric phase of digestion, stability of the starch coating of SS-Chnps in the oral and gastric phases, and agglomeration of all materials during the small intestinal phase. A slight but significant (10%, p < 0.01) increase in cytotoxicity (LDH release) was observed with exposure to digested Chnps but not Chp or SS-Chnps.

Indexed as

Biological AvailabilityCaco-2 CellsChitosanEpitheliumGastrointestinal TractHumansIntestine, SmallKineticsModels, BiologicalNanoparticlesParticle SizeChitosanchitosan nanoparticlesdigestiongastrointestinal tractingested nanomaterialnanotoxicology

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PMID31815446
PMCPMC12056551

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