Importance of characterizing nanoparticles before conducting toxicity tests

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 502-503

  Cong, Yi ^a   Pang, Chengfang ^a   Dai, Lina ^a   Banta, Gary T ^a   Selck, Henriette ^a   Forbesy, Valery E ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

HUMANS; NANOPARTICLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 80052320926     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.204     Document Type: Article

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