The invention discloses a
quantum-dot-based method for carrying out in-situ and real-time detection on heavy
metal ions in cells. The method comprises the following steps of: A. preparing a
carboxymethyl chitosan-CdTe
quantum dot solution with certain concentration; B. digesting
canine kidney cells overgrowing in a T25
cell culture flask
bottle into a unicellular suspension, inoculating into a
cell culture dish, and culturing; C. adding the
carboxymethyl chitosan-CdTe
quantum dot solution into the culture dish, and
hatching for a period of time, thereby obtaining the
canine kidney cells marked with
fluorescence; and D. adding a DMEM (dulbecco's modified
eagle medium)
nutrient solution containing heavy
metal ions with gradient concentration and unknown concentration respectively in washed cells in the culture dish,
hatching together with the cells, detecting the average fluorescent intensity of the cells respectively by a
flow cytometry, and drawing a
standard curve through the changes of the
cell fluorescent intensity, so that the concentration of the heavy
metal ions in the cells can be calculated. The method is simple and convenient to operate; the
fluorescence of marked cells can be quenched regularly as the increase of heavy metal ions, and the real-time and in-situ detection on the outer source heavy metal ions in the cells is realized.