Absence of carcinogenic response to multiwall carbon nanotubes in a 2-year bioassay in the peritoneal cavity of the rat

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 442-448

  Muller, Julie ^a   Delos, Monique ^b   Panin, Nadtha ^a   Rabolli, Virginie ^a   Huaux, François ^a   Lison, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Carcinogenesis; Mesothelioma

Indexed keywords

CROCIDOLITE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM CANCER; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ANIMALS; ASBESTOS, CROCIDOLITE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67650742271     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfp100     Document Type: Article

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