Dispersal state of multiwalled carbon nanotubes elicits profibrogenic cellular responses that correlate with fibrogenesis biomarkers and fibrosis in the murine lung

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9772-9787

  Wang, Xiang ^a   Xia, Tian ^a   Addo Ntim, Susana ^b   Ji, Zhaoxia ^a   Lin, Sijie ^a   Meng, Huan ^a   Chung, Choong Heui ^a   George, Saji ^a   Zhang, Haiyuan ^a   Wang, Meiying ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Castranova, Vincent ^d   Mitra, Somenath ^b   Bonner, James C ^c   Nel, André E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

collagen; dispersion; IL 1 ; lung fibrosis; multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs); PDGF AA; TGF 1

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES; ALVEOLAR REGIONS; AQUEOUS BUFFER; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CELLULAR COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR RESPONSE; COLLAGEN DEPOSITION; DIPALMITOYL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DISPERSED TUBES; FIBROGENESIS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOUSE LUNG; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNTS); PDGF-AA; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PULMONARY TOXICITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TISSUE CULTURE CELLS; WELL-DISPERSED;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BODY FLUIDS; CARBON; CELLS; COLLAGEN; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; MAMMALS; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON NANOTUBE; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LUNG; LUNG FIBROSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LUNG; MICE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84555163703     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2033055     Document Type: Article

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