Cytotoxicity of carbon nanomaterials: Single-wall nanotube, multi-wall nanotube, and fullerene

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1378-1383

  Jia, Guang ^a,b   Wang, Haifang ^c   Yan, Lei ^a   Wang, Xiang ^a   Pei, Rongjuan ^a   Yan, Tao ^a   Zhao, Yuliang ^b,c   Guo, Xinbiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FULLERENES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUARTZ; TOXICITY;

CARBON NANOMATERIALS; CYTOTOXICITY; MULTI-WALL NANOTUBES (MWNT); SINGLE-WALL NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON;

CARBON; FULLERENE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE;

FULLERENE; NANOTUBE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FULLERENES; GUINEA PIGS; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NECROSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 14744304334     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048729l     Document Type: Article

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