Toxicity of nanoparticles of ZnO, CuO and TiO2 to yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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...Studies have recorded some degree of toxicity from ZnO nanoparticles in a wide array of organisms, including bacteria, macroalgae, yeast, protozoa, zebrafish and mice [44-47]....
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...…al. (2011) Effects of light and dark conditions Hirota et al. (2010) Biological activity Sawai et al. (1998) Zhang et al. (2007) Zhang et al. (2008) Kasemets et al. (2009) Jalal et al. (2010) Agar dilution method Antibacterial activity related to the effect of particle size and light/dark…...
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...The release of Zn2+ antimicrobial ions has been suggested as a reasonable hypothesis about the toxicity of ZnO against S. cerevisiae (Kasemets et al., 2009)....
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...5) including the release of antimicrobial ions (Kasemets et al., 2009), interaction of nanoparticles with microorganisms, subsequently damaging the integrity of bacterial cell (Zhang et al., 2008) and the formation of ROS by the effect of light radiation (Jalal et al., 2010)....
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...5) including the release of antimicrobial ions (Kasemets et al., 2009), interaction of nanoparticles with microorganisms, subsequently damaging the integrity of bacterial cell (Zhang Fig....
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...ZnO NPs (50e70 nm) showed comparable toxicity to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as bulk ZnO, with 24-h EC50s of 131 and 158 mg/l, respectively (Kasemets et al., 2009)....
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