A review of carbon nanotube toxicity and assessment of potential occupational and environmental health risks

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 189-217

  Lam, Chiu Wing ^a,b   James, John T ^b   McCluskey, Richard ^b   Arepalli, Sivaram ^b   Hunter, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary Diseases; Fibrosis; Fullerenes; Granulomas; Intratracheal Instillation; Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Natural Gas Combustion; Particulate Matter; PM2.5; Pulmonary Toxicity; Risk Assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON NANOTUBE; FUEL; MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CELL CULTURE; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE TOXICOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXPOSURE; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; GUINEA PIG; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INOCULATION; LUNG TOXICITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGENESIS; POLLUTANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CELL; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GRANULOMA, RESPIRATORY TRACT; HEART; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33645744010     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440600570233     Document Type: Review

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