Antimicrobial engineered nanoparticles in the built cultural heritage context and their ecotoxicological impact on animals and plants: a brief review

Reyes-Estebanez, Manuela; Ortega-Morales, Benjamín Otto; Chan-Bacab, Manuel; Granados-Echegoyen, Carlos; Camacho-Chab, Juan Carlos; Pereañez-Sacarias, Juan Enrique; Gaylarde, Christine

doi:10.1186/s40494-018-0219-9

Heritage Science

Table 1 Influence of principals ENPs on animals and plants at both the organismal and biochemical levels

From: Antimicrobial engineered nanoparticles in the built cultural heritage context and their ecotoxicological impact on animals and plants: a brief review

Type of NPs	Biological group	Organisms	Toxic activity	References
TiO₂	Insect	Drosophila melanogaster	Progeny loss and decline in female fecundity	Philbrook et al. [59]
	Plants	Lemna paucicostata (Aquatic plant, duckweed)	Toxic effect on growth at concentration range of > 250 ppm	Kim et al. [60]
		Lycopersicon esculentum	Reduced chlorophyll content and fruit productivity	Song et al. [61]
		Spinacia oleracea	Increase of N cycle-related enzymes	Zheng et al. [62]
Ag	Insect	Drosophila melanogaster	Decrease in developmental success.	Philbrook et al. [59]
		Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi	Larvicidal activity against mosquito borne diseases	Balakrishnan et al. [63]
		Aedes albopictus, Toxorhynchites splendens, and Mesocyclops thermocyclopoides	Highly effective against larval instars (I–IV) and pupae. Reduced toxicity against the mosquito natural enemies M. thermocyclopoides and T. splendens	Kumar et al. [64]
		Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus	Activity against mosquito larvae in a dose-dependent manner	Ramkumar et al. [65]
		Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi	High toxicity against the treated larvae at very low concentrations	Velu et al. [66]
	Annelids	Eisenia andrei	Bioaccumulation of silver nanoparticles in earthworms	Velicogna et al. [67]
	Annelids	Eisenia fetida	Toxicity increase with time	Diez-Ortiz et al. [68]
	Plants	Allium cepa	Abnormalities in post meiotic products in root tip and flower buds. Both mitotic and meiotic indexes decrease with increasing concentrations of bio-AgNPs in the treated cells	Saha and Gupta [69]
		Cucumis sativus	Growth indices (except pH of fruit), and concentration of silver heavy metal increased significantly	Shams et al. [70]
		Aquatic plant duckweed Lemna paucicostata	Ag-NP (50 nm at > 1 ppm) inhibits growth of Lemna	Kim et al. [60]
		Arabidopsis thaliana	Up-regulation of 286 genes and down-regulation of 81 genes after treatment	Kaveh et al. [71]
		Oryza sativa (Asian rice)	Cytotoxic. Increased protein precursors for oxidative stress tolerance, calcium regulation and signalling, cell wall/DNA/RNA/protein direct damage, cell division, and apoptosis after exposure for 21 days	Mirzajani et al. [72]
		Allium cepa	Oxidative stress and toxicity in roots only when applied in higher concentrations (25, 50, 75 and 100 µM)	Cvjetko et al. [73]
CuO	Insect	Drosophila melanogaster	DNA damage in larval hemocytes and mutant spots on wings	Carmona et al. [38]
	Insect	Enchytraeus crypticus	Toxic for reproductive output of the worms	Gomes et al. [74]
	Plants	Vigna radiata	Reduced shoot and root length and biomass	Gopalakrishnan Nair et al. [75]
	Plants	Lactuca sativa	Reduced the root length	Liu et al. [76]
ZnO	Insect	Helicoverpa armigera	Larvicidal and pupicidal strongly reduced longevity and fecundity. Reduced food consumption	Murugan et al. [77]
	Annelids	Eisenia fetida	Significant damage to earthworms after exposure	Hu et al. [78]
	Nematodes	Caenorhabditis elegans	Smaller particle sizes (< 25 nm) are toxic to nematode	Khare et al. [79]

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