Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Induced Proinflammation of Primary Cultured Cardiac Myocytes of Rat

Figure 6

Expression of TNF-α and IL-6 mRNA in primary cardiac myocytes. The cardiac myocytes were co-cultured with 50, 100, and 150 μg/mL anatase or rutile TiO₂ nanoparticles for 2 days, and the expression of proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α (a, b) and IL-6 (c, d) was detected by RT-PCR. Each error bar represents a standard deviation calculated from experiments performed in triplicate. ^∗𝑃<0.05 compared to the control.

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