Deposition behavior of inhaled nanostructured TiO2 in rats: Fractions of particle diameter below 100 nm (nanoscale) and the slicing bias of transmission electron microscopy

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 939-951

  Morfeld, Peter ^a,b   Treumann, Silke ^c   Ma Hock, Lan ^c   Bruch, Joachim ^d,e   Landsiedel, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute for Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment of Evonik Industries   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d IBE Institute for Lung Health GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inhalation study; Lung; Nanoparticles; Size distribution; Slicing bias; TEM; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; ODDS RATIO; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84870774603     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08958378.2012.738256     Document Type: Article

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