Quantitative techniques for assessing and controlling the dispersion and biological effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in mammalian tissue culture cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7241-7252

  Wang, Xiang ^a   Xia, Tian ^a   Ntim, Susana Addo ^b   Ji, Zhaoxia ^a   George, Saji ^a   Meng, Huan ^a   Zhang, Haiyuan ^a   Castranova, Vincent ^c   Mitra, Somenath ^b   Nel, André E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

bovine serum albumin; cell culture medium; dispersion; hydrophobicity; ionic strength; multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs); steric hindrance

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT EFFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CELL CULTURE MEDIUM; DIPALMITOYL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DISPERSANTS; DISPERSION STATE; DISPERSION TECHNIQUE; DOUBLE LAYER FORMATION; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL GROWTH; FIBROBLAST CELLS; FIBROBLAST PROLIFERATION; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IONIC MEDIA; MAJOR FACTORS; MAMMALIAN TISSUES; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNTS); QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; STERIC HINDRANCES; SUSPENSION STABILITY; TISSUE CULTURE CELLS;

AGGLOMERATION; BODY FLUIDS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DISPERSIONS; FIBROBLASTS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; MAMMALS; MECHANICS; RATING; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

1,2-DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; CATTLE; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; WATER;

EID: 78650739308     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102112b     Document Type: Article

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