In vitro investigation of the cellular toxicity of boron nitride nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3800-3810

  Horváth, Lenke ^a,b   Magrez, Arnaud ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^c   Zhi, Chunyi ^c   Bando, Yoshio ^c   Smajda, Rita ^a   Horváth, Endre ^a   Forró, László ^a   Schwaller, Beat ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA assay; Entanglement; FMCA assay; MTT assay; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

DNA ASSAYS; ENTANGLEMENT; FMCA ASSAY; MTT ASSAYS; TORTUOSITY;

ASSAYS; BORON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; NANOELECTRONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITRIDES; TOXICITY;

CELLS;

BORON DERIVATIVE; ELBOR; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN;

BORON COMPOUNDS; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; NANOTUBES;

EID: 80051487892     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200139h     Document Type: Article

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