Glucose-coated gold nanoparticles transfer across human brain endothelium and enter astrocytes in vitro
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Gromnicova, R., Davies, H., Sreekanthreddy, P., Romero, I., Lund, T., Roitt, I., Phillips, J. and Male, D. 2013. Glucose-coated gold nanoparticles transfer across human brain endothelium and enter astrocytes in vitro. PLoS ONE. 8 (12), pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081043
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Title | Glucose-coated gold nanoparticles transfer across human brain endothelium and enter astrocytes in vitro |
Authors | Gromnicova, R., Davies, H., Sreekanthreddy, P., Romero, I., Lund, T., Roitt, I., Phillips, J. and Male, D. |
Abstract | The blood-brain barrier prevents the entry of many therapeutic agents into the brain. Various nanocarriers have been developed to help agents to cross this barrier, but they all have limitations, with regard to tissue-selectivity and their ability to cross the endothelium. This study investigated the potential for 4 nm coated gold nanoparticles to act as selective carriers across human brain endothelium and subsequently to enter astrocytes. The transfer rate of glucose-coated gold nanoparticles across primary human brain endothelium was at least three times faster than across non-brain endothelia. Movement of these nanoparticles occurred across the apical and basal plasma membranes via the cytosol with relatively little vesicular or paracellular migration; antibiotics that interfere with vesicular transport did not block migration. The transfer rate was also dependent on the surface coating of the nanoparticle and incubation temperature. Using a novel 3-dimensional co-culture system, which includes primary human astrocytes and a brain endothelial cell line hCMEC/D3, we demonstrated that the glucose-coated nanoparticles traverse the endothelium, move through the extracellular matrix and localize in astrocytes. The movement of the nanoparticles through the matrix was >10 µm/hour and they appeared in the nuclei of the astrocytes in considerable numbers. These nanoparticles have the correct properties for efficient and selective carriers of therapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier. |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Publication dates | |
05 Dec 2013 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 03 Jul 2017 |
Accepted | 17 Oct 2013 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | Copyright: © 2013 Gromnicova et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081043 |
Language | English |
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