Ecotoxicological assessment and dermal layer interactions of nanoparticle and its routes of penetrations

Saudi J Biol Sci. 2021 Sep;28(9):5168-5174. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.05.048. Epub 2021 May 24.

Abstract

Our review focused on nanomaterials-based toxicity evaluation and its exposure to the human and aquatic animals when it was leached and contaminated in the environment. Ecotoxicological assessment and its mechanism mainly affect the skin covering layers and its preventive barriers that protect the foreign particles' skin. Nanoscale materials are essential in the medical field, especially in biomedical and commercial applications such as nanomedicine and drug delivery, mainly in therapeutic treatments. However, various commercial formulations of pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured through a series of clinical trials. The role of such drugs and their metabolites has not met the requirement of an individual's need at the early stage of the treatments except few drugs and medicines with minimal or no side effects. Therefore, biology and medicines are taken up the advantages of nano scaled drugs and formulations for the treatment of various diseases. The present study identifies and analyses the different nanoparticles and their chemical components on the skin and their effects due to penetration. There are advantageous factors available to facilitate positive and negative contact between dermal layers. It creates a new agenda for an established application that is mainly based on skin diseases.

Keywords: Dermal layers; In-vitro and in-vivo toxicology; Interaction of nanomaterials; Nanotoxicology; Penetration to the epidermis; Silver nanoparticles.

Publication types

  • Review