Uptake of noncytotoxic acid-treated single-walled carbon nanotubes into the cytoplasm of human macrophage cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1485-1492

  Porter, Alexandra E ^a   Gass, Mhairi ^b   Bendall, James S ^c   Muller, Karin ^c   Goode, Angela ^a   Skepper, Jeremy N ^c   Midgley, Paul A ^c   Welland, Mark ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Electron microscopy; Nanomedicine; Raman spectroscopy; Single walled carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOLECULES; ANALYTICAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CARBON WALLS; CONTRAST AGENT; CYTOTOXIC; HUMAN MACROPHAGES; HUMAN MONOCYTE-DERIVED MACROPHAGES; IN-CELL; NANOMEDICINE; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; TARGET CELLS;

ACIDS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INTERNET; MACROPHAGES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; WATER TREATMENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 67651205774     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900416z     Document Type: Article

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