Journal
SMALL
Volume 16, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201907483
Keywords
dosimetry; endotoxins; functional tests; immunity; nanosafety
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme [814530, 671881, 731032]
- Allergy Cancer Bio-Nano Research Centre of the University of Salzburg
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The immune system is professional in recognizing and responding to non-self, including nanomaterials. Immune responses by professional and nonprofessional immune cells are thus nearly inevitable upon exposure of cells and organisms to such materials. The state of research into taking the immune system into account in nanosafety studies is reviewed and three aspects in which further improvements are desirable are identified: 1) Due to technical limitations, more stringent testing for endotoxin contamination should be made. 2) Since under overdose conditions immunity shows unphysiological responses, all doses used should be justified by being equivalent to tissue-delivered doses. 3) When markers of acute inflammation or cell stress are observed, functional assays are necessary to distinguish between homeostatic fluctuation and genuine defensive or tolerogenic responses. Since immune activation can also indicate that the immune system considers a stimulus to be harmless and induces tolerance, activation markers by themselves do not necessarily imply a danger to the body. Guidelines such as these are necessary to approach the point where specific nanomaterials are classified as safe based on reliable testing strategies.
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