The goal of the present study was to investigate the toxicity of biologically prepared small size of silver nanoparticles in human lung epithelial adenocarcinoma cells A549. Herein, we describe a facile method for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles by treating the supernatant from a culture of Escherichia coli with silver nitrate. The formation of silver nanoparticles was characterized using...

Bury, Nicolas R., and Chris M. Wood. Mechanism of branchial apical silver uptake by rainbow trout is via the proton-coupled Na1 channel. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1385–R1391, 1999.—The branchial uptake mechanism of the nonessential heavy metal silver from very dilute media by the gills of freshwater rainbow trout was investigated. At concentrations .36 nM ...

The protective effect of reactive sulfide against AgNO3 toxicity to Daphnia magna neonates was studied. Acute (48-h) toxicity tests were performed in the absence (<5 nM) and presence of low (approximately 25 nM) and high (approximately 250 nM) concentrations of zinc sulfide clusters under oxic conditions. In both the presence and the absence of sulfide, lower mean lethal concentration (LC50) va...

The branchial uptake mechanism of the nonessential heavy metal silver from very dilute media by the gills of freshwater rainbow trout was investigated. At concentrations >36 nM AgNO3, silver rapidly entered the gills, reaching a peak at 1 h, after which time there was a steady decline in gill silver concentration and a resulting increase in body silver accumulation. Below 36 nM AgNO3, there was...

Daphnids (Daphnia magna) were exposed to AgNO3 at 0.303 +/- 0.017 microg silver/L (46.9% as Ag+), in the absence of food, in moderately hard synthetic water under static conditions for up to 48 h. Results from accumulation experiments demonstrated that silver body burden was inversely related to body mass. Daphnids exposed to silver exhibited ionoregulatory disturbance, which was characterized ...

The distribution of silver (Ag) into remote organs secondary to the application of Ag nanoparticles (Ag-NP) to the lung is still incompletely understood and was investigated in the rat with imaging methods. Dose-finding experiments were carried out with 50 nm- or 200 nm-sized polyvinyl pyrrolidine (PVP)-coated Ag-NP using alveolar macrophages in vitro and female rats, which received Ag-NP via i...

aim: this study was conducted to investigate the accumulation of three heavy metals including lead, tin and zinc in the liver and muscle tissues of 60 silver carp (hypophthalmichthys molitrix) collected from different stations of the anzali wetland (located at the west south of caspian sea): pirbazar, anzali, khazarvila, beshman, sangachin and abkenar, in april 2011. materials and methods: samp...

membrane bilaterally. Fundus examination revealed no pigmentation. Dental, oral mucosal, skin, and nail pigmentation were evident (Figure 1F). The diagnosis of argyrosis was confirmed by conjunctival biopsy. It was possibly due to occupational inhalation of silver. The Scheimpflug image displayed hyperreflectivity corresponding to corneal pigment accumulation areas at the superficial layers (Fi...