Reviewing the environmental and human health knowledge base of carbon nanotubes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1125-1131

  Helland, Aasgeir ^a,b   Wick, Peter ^a   Koehler, Andreas ^a   Schmid, Kaspar ^c   Som, Claudia ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cytotoxicology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental fate; Human health; In vitro; In vivo; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Nanotoxicology

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; NICKEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

AIR POLLUTION; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG TOXICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY; STANDARDIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 34848828552     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9652     Document Type: Review

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