Understanding the sub-lethal effects of ZNO nanoparticles and its implications to skin repair

Wu, Zhuoran

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January 2018

Abstract

Understanding the cellular responses to nano zinc oxide particles (Nano-ZnO) (<100 nm) is key to its successful novel exploitation in nanomedicine and bio-nanotechnology. Unlike other conventional inorganic compounds, zinc is an essential co-factor for numerous enzymes that are known to regulate a wide spectrum of fundamental cellular activities such as redox homeostasis, metabolism and signal transductions. In human, as many as 3000 proteins have been revealed to contain Zn2+. In this regard, Nano-ZnO can be considered as a unique class of biologically active nanomaterials that can either disrupt (at toxic concentration) or support (at non-toxic concentration) cellular functions. While studies have shown that high concentrations of Nano-Zn...

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Understanding the sub-lethal effects of ZNO nanoparticles and its implications to skin repair

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