In vitro effects of chitosan nanoparticles on proliferation of human gastric carcinoma cell line MGC803 cells

AIM: To investigate the effects of chitosan nanoparticles on proliferation of human gastric carcinoma cell line MGC803 in vitro and the possible mechanisms involved.METHODS: Chitosan nanoparticles were characterized by particle size, zeta potential, and morphology. After treatment with various concentrations of chitosan nanoparticles (25, 50, 75, 100 μg/mL) at various time intervals, cell proliferation, ultrastructural changes, DNA fragmentation, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP),cell cycle phase distribution and apoptotic peaks of MGC803 cells were analyzed by MTT assay, electron microscopy,DNA agarose gel electrophoresis, and flow cytometry.RESULTS: Chitosan nanoparticles exhibited a small particle size as 65 nm and a high surface charge as 52 mV.Chitosan nanoparticles markedly inhibited cell proliferation of MGC803 cells with an IC50 value of 5.3 μg/mL 48 h after treatment. After treatment with chitosan nanoparticles,the typical necrotic cell morphology was observed by electron microscopy, a typical DNA degradation associated with necrosis was determined by DNA agarose electrophoresis.Flow cytometry showed the loss of MMP and occurrence of apoptosis in chitosan nanoparticles-treated cells.CONCLUSION: Chitosan nanoparticles effectively inhibit the proliferation of human gastric carcinoma cell line MGC803 in vitro through multiple mechanisms, and may be a beneficial agent against human carcinoma.

Comparison of Calibration Curve Method and Partial Least Square Method in the Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Quantitative Analysis

The Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a fast, non-contact, no sample preparation analytic technology;it is very suitable for on-line analysis of alloy composition. In the copper smelting industry, analysis and control of the copper alloy concentration affect the quality of the products greatly, so LIBS is an efficient quantitative analysis tech- nology in the copper smelting industry. But for the lead brass, the components of Pb, Al and Ni elements are very low and the atomic emission lines are easily submerged under copper complex characteristic spectral lines because of the matrix effects. So it is difficult to get the online quantitative result of these important elements. In this paper, both the partial least squares (PLS) method and the calibration curve (CC) method are used to quantitatively analyze the laser induced breakdown spectroscopy data which is obtained from the standard lead brass alloy samples. Both the major and trace elements were quantitatively analyzed. By comparing the two results of the different calibration method, some useful results were obtained: both for major and trace elements, the PLS method was better than the CC method in quantitative analysis. And the regression coefficient of PLS method is compared with the original spectral data with background interference to explain the advantage of the PLS method in the LIBS quantitative analysis. Results proved that the PLS method used in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy was suitable for simultaneous quantitative analysis of different content elements in copper smelting industry.

Small-invasive determination of iron content in coating of galvanized steel sheets by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

A new method was presented to determine the iron content in the coating of galvanized steel sheet based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy.The zinc-iron coating was characterized with a series of single laser pulses irradiated on the traversing sheet steel,each on a different steel sheet position.The influences of laser fluence and elemental depth distribution were studied and analyzed.To protect the corrosion performance of the coating and meet requirements for small-invasive measurement,the ablation size of the crater under different laser fluences was studied.Under the optimized experimental parameters,the diameter of ablation craters is about 50μm,and then,the Fe content in the coating was calibrated and analyzed by the linear standard calibration method.The calibration result,however,is not good.Considering that the Zn content in the coating was high and relatively constant,curve calibration was then carried out with the intensity ratio(IFe404.58/Izn468.01)instead of the net line intensity of Fe,and then,the determination coefficient of calibration curve increases from 0.7713 to 0.9511,and the root-mean-square error decreases from 0.4832%to 0.1509%.The results prove that the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy is an effective way for the analysis of the Fe content in the coating of galvanized steel sheet.