Experimental evidence of false-positive Comet test results due to TiO 2 particle-assay interactions

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1043-1051

  Rajapakse, Katarina ^a   Drobne, Damjana ^a,b   Kastelec, Damijana ^a   Marinsek Logar, Romana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Technologies for the Future (CO NAMASTE)   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

DNA damage; Nanoparticles; Nanotoxicity; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

DNA; MALONALDEHYDE; NANOPARTICLE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL SUSPENSION; COMET ASSAY; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENOTOXICITY; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; ZETA POTENTIAL;

COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FATTY ACIDS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; NANOPARTICLES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TITANIUM;

EID: 84880057375     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2012.696735     Document Type: Article

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