Carbon nanotube ecotoxicity in amphibians: Assessment of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and comparison with double-walled carbon nanotubes

Nanomedicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 963-974

  Mouchet, Florence ^a,b   Landois, Perine ^c,d   Puech, Pascal ^c   Pinelli, Eric ^a,b   Flahaut, Emmanuel ^c,d   Gauthier, Laury ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d INSTITUT CARNOT CIRIMAT   (France)

Author keywords

amphibian larvae; double walled carbon nanotube; genotoxicity; multiwalled carbon nanotube; Raman analysis; toxicity; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBER; DOUBLE WALLED NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; LARVA; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 77956079575     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.10.60     Document Type: Article

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