- Title
- Investigating the anti-inflammatory effect of blueberry-AuNP on microglial cells and obese rat brains
- Creator
- Ngwato, Anacia
- Subject
- Anti-inflammatory agents
- Subject
- Brain -- Anatomy
- Subject
- Brain -- Physiology
- Date Issued
- 2024-04
- Date
- 2024-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/64266
- Identifier
- vital:73670
- Description
- Nanotoxicology is a field of study that investigates how nanomaterials interact with biological systems. It focuses on understanding the correlation between the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials, such as size and stability, and their potential toxic effects. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), for instance, have a variety of applications in the biological sciences. Therefore, there is a great deal of attention given to evaluating their toxicity to ensure their safe and effective use in biological systems. Anti-inflammatory AuNPs have shown to be a desirable application in obesity treatments since obesity is associated with systematic inflammation. Thus, the study aimed to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effect of BE-AuNPs on C8-B4 microglial cell lines and, to validate the results, the grey matter of brain tissue of obese rats treated with BE-AuNPs. Following the synthesis and characterization of BE-AuNPs, C8-B4 microglial cells were treated with the BE-AuNPs and were evaluated through MTT, HRTEM imaging, qPCR, and ROS. LPS was used to activate the cells. Concentration-dependent toxicity of BE-AuNPs and cellular uptake was observed. The qPCR results showed that the BE-AuNPs decreased the LPS-induced inflammation in the cells. The BE-AuNPs were shown to reduce ROS in inflammatory conditions in the cells. Rat brain tissue analysis through qPCR and ROS demonstrated that BE-AuNPs reduce HFD-induced inflammation and had no ROS effects on the brain, respectively. Thus, leading to a conclusion the BE-AuNPs used in this study are anti-inflammatory.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science, Biomolecular & Chemical Sciences, 2024
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (107 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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