Investigation on the genotoxicity of different sizes of gold nanoparticles administered to the lungs of rats

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 745, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 51-57

  Schulz, Markus ^a   Ma Hock, Lan ^a   Brill, Sandra ^a   Strauss, Volker ^a   Treumann, Silke ^a   Gröters, Sibylle ^a   Van Ravenzwaay, Bennard ^a   Landsiedel, Robert ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Gold nanoparticles; In vivo genotoxicity; Instillation; Micronucleus test

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; GOLD; LUNG; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84860469024     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2011.11.016     Document Type: Article

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