Oxidative stress and inflammatory response to printer toner particles in human epithelial A549 lung cells

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 171-180

  Könczöl, Mathias ^a,b   Weiß, Adilka ^a   Gminski, Richard ^a   Merfort, Irmgard ^b   Mersch Sundermann, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Magnetite; PAH; Printer toner particles; ROS

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PRINTER TONER PARTICLE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CASPASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; LUNG; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; NEUTRAL RED; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMONIA; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS;

EID: 84871541782     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.11.018     Document Type: Article

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