TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shityakov, Sergey
A1  - Salvador, Ellaine
A1  - Pastorin, Giorgia
A1  - Förster, Carola
T1  - Blood-brain barrier transport studies, aggregation, and molecular dynamics simulation of multiwalled carbon nanotube functionalized with fluorescein isothiocyanate
T2  - International Journal of Nanomedicine
N2  - In this study, the ability of a multiwalled carbon nanotube functionalized with fluorescein isothiocyanate (MWCNT-FITC) was assessed as a prospective central nervous system-targeting drug delivery system to permeate the blood-brain barrier. The results indicated that the MWCNT-FITC conjugate is able to penetrate microvascular cerebral endothelial monolayers; its concentrations in the Transwell® system were fully equilibrated after 48 hours. Cell viability test, together with phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopies, did not detect any signs of MWCNT-FITC toxicity on the cerebral endothelial cells. These microscopic techniques also revealed presumably the intracellular localization of fluorescent MWCNT-FITCs apart from their massive nonfluorescent accumulation on the cellular surface due to nanotube lipophilic properties. In addition, the 1,000 ps molecular dynamics simulation in vacuo discovered the phenomenon of carbon nanotube aggregation driven by van der Waals forces via MWCN-TFITC rapid dissociation as an intermediate phase.
KW  - endothelial cells
KW  - cytotoxicity
KW  - blood-brain barrier
KW  - fluorescein isothiocyanate
KW  - aggregation
KW  - molecular dynamics
KW  - fluorescence microscopy
KW  - Transwell® system
KW  - multiwalled carbon nanotube
KW  - mice
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14923
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-149233
VL  - 10
ER  -