Limitations and relative utility of screening assays to assess engineered nanoparticle toxicity in a human cell line

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-235

  Monteiro Riviere, N A ^a   Inman, A O ^a   Zhang, L W ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alamar Blue; C60; Calcein AM; Carbon; Carbon black; Celltiter 96 AQueous One; Celltiter Blue ; CytoTox One ; Flow cytometry; Human epidermal keratinocytes; Live Dead; MTT; Nanomaterials; nC60; NR; Quantum dots; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Toxicity; Viability assays

Indexed keywords

ALAMAR BLUE; CALCEIN; CARBON; DYE; FULLERENE; NANOMATERIAL; NEUTRAL RED; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TRYPAN BLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; LETHAL DOSE; LIGHT SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; OXAZINES; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; TRYPAN BLUE; XANTHENES;

EID: 58149267870     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2008.09.030     Document Type: Article

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