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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">najo</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наносистемы: физика, химия, математика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-8054</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2305-7971</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Университет ИТМО</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17586/2220-8054-2019-10-1-92-101</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">najo-537</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ХИМИЯ И НАУКА О МАТЕРИАЛАХ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>PVP-stabilized tungsten oxide nanoparticles inhibit proliferation of NCTC L929 mouse fibroblasts via induction of intracellular oxidative stress</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Popov</surname><given-names>A. L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">antonpopovleonid@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ermakov</surname><given-names>A. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ao_ermakovy@rambler.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Shekunova</surname><given-names>T. O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">taisia.shekunova@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Shcherbakov</surname><given-names>A. B.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kyiv, D0368 </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">carotene@igic.ras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ermakova</surname><given-names>O. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">beoluchi@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivanova</surname><given-names>O. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">runetta05@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Popova</surname><given-names>N. R.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">nellipopovaran@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Baranchikov</surname><given-names>A. Ye.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">a.baranchikov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivanov</surname><given-names>V. K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">van@igic.ras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Lomonosov Moscow State University ; Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine</institution><country>Ukraine</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-4"><institution>Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>92</fpage><lpage>101</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Popov A.L., Ermakov A.M., Shekunova T.O., Shcherbakov A.B., Ermakova O.N., Ivanova O.S., Popova N.R., Baranchikov A.Y., Ivanov V.K., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Popov A.L., Ermakov A.M., Shekunova T.O., Shcherbakov A.B., Ermakova O.N., Ivanova O.S., Popova N.R., Baranchikov A.Y., Ivanov V.K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Popov A.L., Ermakov A.M., Shekunova T.O., Shcherbakov A.B., Ermakova O.N., Ivanova O.S., Popova N.R., Baranchikov A.Y., Ivanov V.K.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/537">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/537</self-uri><abstract><p>In this study, photochromic PVP-stabilized tungsten oxide nanoparticles (WO3-x NPs) were shown to exhibit a dose-dependent cytotoxic effect on mouse fibroblasts in vitro. WO3-x NPs reduce viability and proliferative activity of the cells via induction of intracellular oxidative stress leading to apoptosis and cell death. WO3-x NPs modulate the mRNA expression of a wide range of genes responsible for oxidative stress and the cell redox-system.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>tungsten oxide nanoparticles</kwd><kwd>cytotoxicity</kwd><kwd>apoptosis</kwd><kwd>fibroblasts</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This study was funded by Russian Science Foundation (project 18-73-10150).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Firouzi M., Poursalehi R., et al. Chitosan coated tungsten trioxide nanoparticles as a contrast agent for X-ray computed tomography. Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 2017, 98, P. 479–485.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Firouzi M., Poursalehi R., et al. 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