High Surface Reactivity and Biocompatibility of YO NPs in Human MCF-7 Epithelial and HT-1080 FibroBlast Cells.

This study aimed to generate a comparative data on biological response of yttrium oxide nanoparticles (YO NPs) with the antioxidant CeO NPs and pro-oxidant ZnO NPs. Sizes of YO NPs were found to be in the range of 35±10 nm as measured by TEM and were larger from its hydrodynamic sizes in water (1004 ± 134 nm), PBS (3373 ± 249 nm), serum free culture media (1735 ± 305 nm) and complete culture media (542 ± 108 nm). Surface reactivity of YO NPs with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was found significantly higher than for CeO and ZnO NPs.