Toxicogenomic responses of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to gold nanoparticles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4115-4124

  Tsyusko, Olga V ^a   Unrine, Jason M ^a   Spurgeon, David ^c   Blalock, Eric ^d   Starnes, Daniel ^a   Tseng, Michael ^e   Joice, Greg ^a   Bertsch, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AU NANOPARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS; ELEGANS; ENDOCYTOSIS PATHWAY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; Q-RT-PCR; SOIL ORGANISMS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UP-REGULATION;

CELL MEMBRANES; DETOXIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

GOLD;

AMYLOID; CHAPERONE; CITRIC ACID; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 16; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 3; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 4; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DETOXIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GOLD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NEMATODE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXICITY;

ABU 11 GENE; ACT 5 GENE; APL 1 GENE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DYN 1 GENE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NECROSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CITRATES; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; NECROSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOXICOGENETICS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 84859369725     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2033108     Document Type: Article

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