Respiratory toxicities of nanomaterials - A focus on carbon nanotubes

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1694-1699

  Boczkowski, Jorge ^a,b,c,d   Lanone, Sophie ^a,b,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE   (France)

^c AP HP   (France)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Biopersistence; Carbon nanotubes; Degradation; Inflammation; Lung; Nanomedcine; Oxidative stress; Protein corona; Systemic translocation

Indexed keywords

BIOPERSISTENCE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; NANOMEDCINE; SYSTEMIC TRANSLOCATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; DEGRADATION; DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPORTING GOODS; TOXICITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG TOXICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MUTAGENS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84869176998     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2012.05.011     Document Type: Review

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