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Title: Co-exposure to the food additives SiO2 (E551) or TiO2 (E171) and the pesticide boscalid increases cytotoxicity and bioavailability of the pesticide in a tri-culture small intestinal epithelium model : potential health implications
Authors: Cao, Xiaoqiong
DeLoid, Glen M.
Bitounis, Dimitrios
De La Torre-Roche, Roberto
White, Jason C.
Zhang, Zhenyuan
Ho, Chin Guan
Ng, Kee Woei
Eitzer, Brian D.
Demokritou, Philip
Keywords: Engineering::Materials
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Cao, X., DeLoid, G. M., Bitounis, D., De La Torre-Roche, R., White, J. C., Zhang, Z., Ho, C. G., Ng, K. W., Eitzer, B. D. & Demokritou, P. (2019). Co-exposure to the food additives SiO2 (E551) or TiO2 (E171) and the pesticide boscalid increases cytotoxicity and bioavailability of the pesticide in a tri-culture small intestinal epithelium model : potential health implications. Environmental Science: Nano, 6(9), 2786-2800. https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9EN00676A
Project: U24ES026946 
Journal: Environmental Science: Nano 
Abstract: Many toxicity investigations have evaluated the potential health risks of ingested engineered nanomaterials (iENMs); however, few have addressed the potential combined effects of iENMs and other toxic compounds (e.g. pesticides) in food. To address this knowledge gap, we investigated the effects of two widely used, partly nanoscale, engineered particulate food additives, TiO2 (E171) and SiO2 (E551), on the cytotoxicity and cellular uptake and translocation of the pesticide boscalid. Fasting food model (phosphate buffer) containing iENM (1% w/w), boscalid (10 or 150 ppm), or both, was processed using a simulated in vitro oral-gastric-small intestinal digestion system. The resulting small intestinal digesta was applied to an in vitro tri-culture small intestinal epithelium model, and effects on cell layer integrity, viability, cytotoxicity and production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were assessed. Boscalid uptake and translocation was also quantified by LC/MS. Cytotoxicity and ROS production in cells exposed to combined iENM and boscalid were greater than in cells exposed to either iENM or boscalid alone. More importantly, translocation of boscalid across the tri-culture cellular layer was increased by 20% and 30% in the presence of TiO2 and SiO2, respectively. One possible mechanism for this increase is diminished epithelial cell health, as indicated by the elevated oxidative stress and cytotoxicity observed in co-exposed cells. In addition, analysis of boscalid in digesta supernatants revealed 16% and 30% more boscalid in supernatants from samples containing TiO2 and SiO2, respectively, suggesting that displacement of boscalid from flocculated digestive proteins by iENMs may also contribute to the increased translocation.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149998
ISSN: 2051-8153
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN00676A
Schools: School of Materials Science and Engineering 
Research Centres: Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute 
Rights: © 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Environmental Science: Nano and is made available with permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Fulltext Permission: open
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