Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Schuller, P; Rothbauer, M; Kratz, SRA; Holl, G; Taus, P; Schinnerl, M; Genser, J; Bastus, N; Moriones, OH; Puntes, V; Huppertz, B; Siwetz, M; Wanzenbock, H; Ertl, P.
A lab-on-a-chip system with an embedded porous membrane-based impedance biosensor array for nanoparticle risk assessment on placental Bewo trophoblast cells.
SENSOR ACTUAT B-CHEM. 2020; 312: 127946
Doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2020.127946
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- Huppertz Berthold
- Siwetz Monika
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- The human placenta is a unique organ serving as the lung, gut, liver, and kidney of the fetus, mediating the exchange of different endogenous as well as exogenous substances and gases between the mother and fetus during pregnancy. Additionally, the placental barrier protects the fetus from a range of environmental toxins, bacterial and viral infections, since any contaminant bridging the placenta may have unforeseeable effects on embryonal and fetal development. A more recent concern in placenta research, however, involves the ability of engineered nanoparticles to cross the placental barrier and/or affect its barrier function. To advance nanoparticle risk assessment at the human placental barrier, we have developed as proof-of-principle a highly integrated placenta-on-a-chip system containing embedded membrane-bound impedance microsensor arrays capable of non-invasively monitoring placental barrier integrity. Barrier integrity is continuously and label-free evaluated using porous membrane-based interdigitated electrode structures located on top of a porous PET membrane supporting a barrier of trophoblast-derived BeWo cell barrier in the absence and presence of standardized silicon dioxide (SiO2), titanium dioxide (TiO2), and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials.
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