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The NPs are not cytotoxic to RPMI 2650 cells, mucosal model cells, at a concentration of 6000 \u03bcg\/mL. The anti-oxidative activities of SF\/NAC NPs are demonstrated by high H2O2 scavenge capacities of the NPs and shown by mitochondrial superoxide (MitoSOX) immunostaining of human mesenchymal stem cells. Tight junctions in RPMI 2650 cells are opened after 30 min of incubation with SF\/NAC NPs, which are demonstrated by measuring the decrease in trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) values and discreteness in ZO-1 stains. The cellular uptake of SF\/NAC NPs by RPMI 2650 cells is significantly greater than that for SF NPs and increased with increasing incubation time. In an in vivo imaging study (IVIS) using rats shows that the amount of NAC that is delivered to the brain by SF\/NAC NPs increased by 1.40\u20132.60 times and NAC is retained longer in the nasal cavity than NAC solutions in a 2-h study.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pharmaceutics14061288","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,17]],"date-time":"2022-06-17T05:25:11Z","timestamp":1655443511000},"page":"1288","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Antioxidative NAC-Loaded Silk Nanoparticles with Opening Mucosal Tight Junctions for Nasal Drug Delivery: An In Vitro and In Vivo Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7469-9913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tze-Wen","family":"Chung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biomedical Engineering Research and Development Center, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ting-Ya","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zheng-Yu","family":"Siah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Der-Zen","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103940","DOI":"10.1016\/j.isci.2022.103940","article-title":"Silk-based bioinspired structural and functional materials","volume":"25","author":"Xu","year":"2022","journal-title":"iScience"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"556","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jbiosc.2008.12.012","article-title":"Monitoring of inflammatory mediators induced by silk sericin","volume":"107","author":"Aramwit","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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