Carbon nanotubes enhance cytotoxicity mediated by human lymphocytes in vitro

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Zhao ^a   Liu, Zhe ^b   Meng, Jie ^b,c   Duan, Jinhong ^b   Xie, Sishen ^d   Lu, Xin ^a   Zhu, Zhaohui ^a   Wang, Chen ^c   Chen, Shuchang ^a   Xu, Haiyan ^b   Yang, Xian Da ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CARBON NANOTUBE; CYTOKINE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; UPREGULATION; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; SECRETION;

APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NF-KAPPA B;

EID: 79959468979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021073     Document Type: Article

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