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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2021 Oct 1;21(10):5083–5098. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2021.19328

Table 5.

Gene expressions for metallothionein genes in HepG2 cells following Cu NPs or CuCl2 treatment for 72 hr.

Chemical Cu NPs CuCl2
dosage (μg/ml) 10 5 2.5 1.25 3 1 0.5 0.25
Metallothionein genes MT1XP1 64 116 94 45 66 nc* nc nc
MT1X 68 109 97 33 57 2.5 1.9 2.1
MT1B 142 387 168 64 138 nc nc nc
MT1M 171 340 213 79 198 nc nc nc
MT1G 204 282 132 50 91 2.9 2.6 2.6
MT1H 238 335 291 64 229 nc nc nc
MT2A 29 33 23 10 16 2.0 nc 1.5
*

nc = no change