Green synthesis of TiO2 NPs
TiO2.NPs was synthesized using a standard technique, which involved dissolving green tea extract in 150 mL of boiling distilled water. Thereafter, green tea extract was mixed with 0.01 mol of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) for 5 min at 70 0C. After bringing the pH of the solution to a basic (pH 9.0), neutral (pH 7.0), or acidic (pH 5.0) range with steady stirring for 30 minutes, a yellow solution with white precipitates was produced. The resultant precipitate was centrifuged for 10 minutes at 8500 rpm to get TiO2(NPs), which was then dried at room temperature after going through multiple cycles of washing with distilled water [pre-considered for publication in Zhps vol.90,N0.3(May-June)2023].
Uv –irradiation
UV- exposure was performed using an UV- lamp (UVB) with a power of 11 W and wave wavelength 290nm, at a distance of 1 cm from the source output. The integrated UV exposure times of the TiO2 (NPs) ranged from 0.5–10 h.
Ir- Irradiation
IR exposure was performed using an IR lamp with a power of 250 W, at a distance of 1 cm from the source output. The integrated IR exposure times of the TiO2 (NPs) ranged from 2.5–20 min.
In vitro toxicity study
Evaluation Of Cytotoxic Effects Of Certain Chemical Compound
Mammalian cell lines:
WI 38 (Normal human Lung fibroblast cells) and HuH-7cells (human Hepatocellular cancer cell line) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Rockville, MD).
Chemicals Used:
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), Fetal Bovine serum, MTT and trypan blue dye were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, Mo., USA).
RPMI-1640, DMEM, HEPES buffer solution, L-glutamine, gentamycin and 0.25% Trypsin-EDTA were purchased from Lonza (Belgium).
Cell Line Propagation:
For WI 38 cells, The cells were propagated in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum, 1% L-glutamine, HEPES buffer and 50µg/ml gentamycin.
For HuH-7cells, The cells were grown on RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with 10% inactivated fetal calf serum and 50µg/ml gentamycin.
Then all cells were maintained at 37ºC in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2 and were subcultured two times a week.
Cytotoxicity Evaluation Using Viability Assay:
For cytotoxicity assay, the cells were seeded in 96-well plate at a cell concentration of 1×104 cell/well in 100µl of growth medium. Fresh medium containing different concentrations of the test sample was added after 24 h of seeding. Serial two-fold dilutions of the tested chemical compound were added to confluent cell monolayers dispensed into 96-well, flat-bottomed microtiter plates (Falcon, NJ, USA) using a multichannel pipette. The microtiter plates were incubated at 37ºC in a humidified incubator with 5% CO2 for a period of 24 h. Three wells were used for each concentration of the test sample. Control cells were incubated without test sample and with or without DMSO. The little percentage of DMSO present in the wells (maximal 0.1%) was found not to affect the experiment.
For antitumor assays, the tumor cell lines were suspended in medium at concentration 5x104 cell/well in Corning® 96-well tissue culture plates, then incubated for 24 hr. The tested compounds were then added into 96-well plates (three replicates) to achieve twelve concentrations for each compound. Six vehicle controls with media or 0.5% DMSO were run for each 96 well plate as a control.
After incubation of the cells viable cells yield was determined by a colorimetric method.
After incubating for 24 h, the numbers of viable cells were determined by the MTT test. Briefly, the media was removed from the 96 well plate and replaced with 100 µl of fresh culture RPMI 1640 medium without phenol red then 10 µl of the 12 mM MTT stock solution (5 mg of MTT in 1 mL of PBS) to each well including the untreated controls. The 96 well plates were then incubated at 37°C and 5% CO2 for 4 hours. An 85 µl aliquot of the media was removed from the wells, and 50 µl of DMSO was added to each well and mixed thoroughly with the pipette and incubated at 37°C for 10 min. Then, the optical density was measured at 590 nm with the microplate reader (SunRise, TECAN, Inc, USA) to determine the number of viable cells and the percentage of viability was calculated as [(ODt/ODc)]x100% where ODt is the mean optical density of wells treated with the tested sample and ODc is the mean optical density of untreated cells.
The relation between surviving cells and drug concentration is plotted to get the survival curve of each tumor cell line after treatment with the specified compound.as shown in Fig. 6, 7, 9, 10. The Cytotoxic concentration (CC50), the concentration required to cause toxic effects in 50% of intact cells and The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50), the concentration required to cause toxic effects in 50% of intact cells, were estimated from graphic plots of the dose response curve for each conc. using Graphpad Prism software (San Diego, CA. USA) [25,26].
Microscopic Observation Of The Tumor Cells Treated With The Compounds:
As previously mentioned in the procedure for antitumor activity, this experiment was performed. The plates were inverted to remove the medium after the treatment at the tested concentration, and the wells were then washed three times with 300 l of phosphate buffered saline (pH 7.2). Next, the cells were fixed to the plate for 15 min. at room temperature using 10% formalin. The fixed cells were then stained with 100 µl of 0.25% crystal violet for 20 min. The stain was removed and the plates were rinsed using deionized water to remove the excess of stain then allowed to dry. Images showing the morphological changes in comparison to control cells were taken using an inverted microscope (CKX41; Olympus, Japan) equipped with the digital microscopy camera. At a magnification of 100x, the cytopathic effects (morphological changes) were observed [27] as shown in Fig. 12,13.