Nano Size Effects of TiO2 Nanotube Array on the Glioma Cells Behavior

作者:Yang, He; Qin, Xiaofei; Tian, Ang*; Zhang, Dongyong; Xue, Xiangxin; Wu, Anhua
来源:International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2013, 14(1): 244-254.
DOI:10.3390/ijms14010244

摘要

In order to investigate the interplay between the cells and TiO2 nanotube array, and to explore the ability of cells to sense the size change in nano-environment, we reported on the behavior of glioma C6 cells on nanotube array coatings in terms of proliferation and apoptosis. The behavior of glioma C6 cells was obviously size-dependent on the coatings; the caliber with 15 nm diameter provided effective spacing to improve the cells proliferation and enhanced the cellular activities. C6 cells' biological behaviors showed many similar tendencies to many phorocytes; the matching degree of geometry between nanotube and integrin defined that a spacing of 15 nm was optimal for inducing signals to nucleus, which results in achieving maximum activity of glioma cells. In addition, the immune behavior of cells was studied, a variety of inflammatory mediator's gene expression levels were controlled by the nanoscale dimension, the expressions of IL-6 and IL-10 were higher on 30 nm than on 15 nm nanotube.

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