Long-term accumulation and low toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes in intravenously exposed mice

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 182-189

  Yang, Sheng Tao ^a   Wang, Xiang ^b   Jia, Guang ^b   Gu, Yiqun ^c   Wang, Tiancheng ^d   Nie, Haiyu ^a   Ge, Cuicui ^e   Wang, Haifang ^a   Liu, Yuanfang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c Maternity Hospital of Haidian District   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Carbon nanotubes; Intravenous administration; Oxidative stress; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CELL INFILTRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG CLEARANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY INFLAMMATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPLEEN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

MUS;

EID: 52049100604     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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