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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Nao Silver

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INTRODUCTION:
Silver is bright and shining metal known to mankind from ancient times. From ancient time’s human civilization are using silver for jewelleries, utensils, weapons, coin, medicine, water containing tanks. From early days silver is assisting the immune system when it was plentiful available in dissolved metallic form in water[1]. In periodic table it is placed at 47th position near to heavy metal.it is a transition metal. It has atomic weight 107.8. Silver has good metallic property like malleability, ductility, thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity [2]. Silver exhibit the excellent anti-microbial property. After the development of nanotechnology we are using silver extensively in various area. Now a day we use silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) instead of metallic silver for many of daily uses. It is seen that AgNPs is highest degree of commercialisation among all the Nanoparticles in medical and health sector. There are numerous uses where AgNPs are used like in cloths, medicines, disinfectants, tiles, surgical equipment, and silver coated bone prosthesis. Nao silver is also used in room spray, paints and laundry detergents. Many manufacture using nano silver in washing machines and refrigerators. Silver coated or vessels are used to preserve water and wine mainly during long voyages. …show more content…

With the numerous advantages AgNPs have the potential risk of toxicity to human body. Several studies showed that AgNPs shows the toxicity toward various organs of human body like lungs, liver, kidneys, vascular system and skin. AgNPs induce cell cycle arrest due gene expression at different check points of cell division. AgNPs causes toxicity in manner as ROS generation, oxidative stress, DNA damage and finally apoptosis. These are all preliminary findings more comprehensive studies are needed to have clear image about the mechanism by which AgNPs causes cytotoxicity and

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