Ninety-day inhalation toxicity study with a vapor grown carbon nanofiber in rats

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 449-460

  Delorme, Michael P ^a   Muro, Yukihiro ^b   Arai, Toshihiro ^b   Banas, Deborah A ^c   Frame, Steven R ^a   Reed, Kenneth L ^a   Warheit, David B ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b Showa Denko Materials Co   (Japan)

^c EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon allotropes; Carbon nanofiber toxicity; Carbon nanofibers; Carbon nanotubes; Inhalation toxicity; Nanofiber; Nanomaterials; Pulmonary toxicity

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBER; CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAPOR GROWN CARBON NANOFIBER;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BRONCHIOLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RAT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TOXIC INHALATION; VAPOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CARBON; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOFIBERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84865369967     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs172     Document Type: Article

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