In search of the most relevant parameter for quantifying lung inflammatory response to nanoparticle exposure: Particle number, surface area, or what?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-194

  Wittmaack, Klaus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Joint length; Lung inflammation; Particle mass; Particle number; Saturation effects; Specific surface area; Ultrafine carbon particles

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMONIA; RATS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 33847068722     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9254     Document Type: Article

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