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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Graphene oxide (GO) is believed to become applicable in biomedical products and medicine, thereby necessitating appropriate safety evaluation dependent on their applications and the route of administration. We have examined the effect of GO form (in solution versus immobilized) and oxidation state on two related elements of innate immunity: the complement system and interleukin-6 (IL-6) release in human blood. In solution, there was a decrease in GO-mediated complement activation with decreasing surface oxygen content (and altered oxygen functionality), whereas with immobilized GO complement response were reversed and increased with decreasing oxygen content. GO solutions, at concentrations below complement activating threshold, did not induce IL-6 release from human blood leukocytes, and further dampened lipopolysaccharide-induced IL-6 release in the whole blood. The latter effect became more profound with GO's having higher oxygen content. This protective role of GO solutions, however, disappeared at higher concentrations above complement-activating threshold. We discuss these results in relation to GO surface structure and properties, and implications for local administration and development of GO-based implantable devices.
Author(s): Wibroe PP, Petersen SV, Bovet N, Laursen BW, Moghimi SM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Biomaterials
Year: 2016
Volume: 78
Pages: 20-26
Print publication date: 01/02/2016
Online publication date: 19/11/2015
Acceptance date: 17/11/2015
ISSN (print): 0142-9612
ISSN (electronic): 1878-5905
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.11.028
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.11.028
PubMed id: 26646624
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