Physico-chemical features of engineered nanoparticles relevant to their toxicity

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-363

  Fubini, Bice ^a   Ghiazza, Mara ^a   Fenoglio, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; Genotoxicity; reference materials in nanotoxicology; silica nanoparticles surface reactivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; IMOGOLITE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOFIBER; NANOPARTICLE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; CARCINOGEN DNA INTERACTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NANOPARTICLES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PROTEINS;

LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS;

EID: 77957935560     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2010.509519     Document Type: Review

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