A comparison of acute and long-term effects of industrial multiwalled carbon nanotubes on human lung and immune cells in vitro

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 176-186

  Thurnherr, Tina ^a   Brandenberger, Christina ^b   Fischer, Kathrin ^a   Diener, Liliane ^a   Manser, Pius ^a   Maeder Althaus, Xenia ^a   Kaiser, Jean Pierre ^a   Krug, Harald F ^a   Rothen Rutishauser, Barbara ^b   Wick, Peter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cytotoxicity; In vitro; Lung

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS FIBER; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPTOSIS; ASBESTOS; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JURKAT CELLS; LUNG; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 78651080632     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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