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Published in final edited form as: ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2010 Oct;2(10):2749–2758. doi: 10.1021/am100616b

Table 6.

Uptake Study of Metal-Bound SH-SAMMS with a Caco-2 Cell Monolayer

sample	As^III	Cd^II	Hg^II	Pb^II	TEER (Ω cm²)
metal-bound SAMMS (μg)^a	1.4 ± 0.03	2.5 ± 0.00	2.5 ± 0.00	2.5 ± 0.00
test group (ng)^b	1.2 ± 0.01	0.3 ± 0.11	1.3 ± 0.43	0.5 ± 0.16	798 ± 16
blank (ng)^c	2.1 ± 0.15	0.4 ± 0.12	0.9 ± 0.00	0.1 ± 0.03	792 ± 19
% metal transport	0	0	0.02	0.02

Estimated from 0.0025 g of SH-SAMMS bound with 0.6 mg of As and 1.0 mg of Cd, Hg, and Pb per g of SH-SAMMS.

Metals in the basolateral side of Caco-2 cells after 2 h of contact with the material in footnote a, in triplicate.

Metals in the basolateral side of Caco-2 cells after 2 h of contact with the filtrate of metal-bound SAMMS suspension (after solid removal), in duplicate.