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Yinghuai Zhu1, Parichat Prommana2, Narayan S Hosmane3
1State Key Laboratory of Anti-Infective Drug Development (NO 2015DQ780357), Sunshine Lake Pharma Co., Ltd., Songshan Lake Industrial Park, Dongguan 523871, China.
Abstract:
Boron nanoparticles (BNPs), functionalized with hydroxyl groups, were synthesized in situ by a cascade process, followed by bromination and hydrolyzation reactions. These functionalized BNPs, (B (OH) ), were characterized using 1H and 11B NMR spectra, Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) methods. These nanoparticles were also evaluated in vitro for their antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum (3D7 strain) with an IC50 value of 0.0021 μM and showed low toxicity to Uppsala 87 malignant glioma (U87MG) cell lines, malignant melanoma A375 cell lines, KB human oral cancer cell lines, rat cortical neuron cell lines, and rat fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS) cell lines.
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