Mesothelioma: Do asbestos and carbon nanotubes pose the same health risk?

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jaurand, Marie Claude F ^a,b   Renier, Annie ^a,b   Daubriac, Julien ^a,b  

^a FONDATION JEAN DAUSSET CEPH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARBON NANOTUBE; INTERLEUKIN 8; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ASBESTOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARCINOGENICITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTOXICITY; GRANULOMA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TOXICITY; MESOTHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXIC INHALATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67650760730     PISSN: 17438977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8977-6-16     Document Type: Review

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