Acute Toxicity of Intravenously Administered Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Jiaying ^a   Shi, Hongbo ^a   Ruth, Magaye ^a   Yu, Hongsheng ^a   Lazar, Lissy ^a   Zou, Baobo ^a   Yang, Cui ^b   Wu, Aiguo ^b   Zhao, Jinshun ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; NANOPARTICLE; NITROGEN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD TOXICITY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTOXICITY; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY MASS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER INJURY; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG INJURY; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN WEIGHT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGAN SIZE; SPLEEN; TITANIUM; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE;

EID: 84881343185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070618     Document Type: Article

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