Effects of lung exposure to carbon nanotubes on female fertility and pregnancy. A study in mice

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 86-97

  Hougaard, Karin S ^a   Jackson, Petra ^a   Kyjovska, Zdenka O ^a   Birkedal, Renie K ^a   De Temmerman, Pieter Jan ^b   Brunelli, Andrea ^c   Verleysen, Eveline ^b   Madsen, Anne Mette ^a   Saber, Anne T ^a   Pojana, Giulio ^c   Mast, Jan ^b   Marcomini, Antonio ^c   Jensen, Keld A ^a   Wallin, Håkan ^a   Szarek, Józef ^d   Mortensen, Alicja ^e   Vogel, Ulla ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Lung and liver pathology; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Nanotoxicology; Pregnancy; Reproductive toxicity

Indexed keywords

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER HYPERPLASIA; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LOCOMOTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TOXICITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STARTLE REFLEX; TOXICITY TESTING;

MUS;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE REACTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANCOVA; ANOVA; ASR; AVERAGE OF TUBE MOVEMENTS FOR 100MS FOLLOWING ONSET OF STARTLE STIMULUS; AVG; BAL; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON NANOTUBE; CNT; COX; CRP; CYCLOOXYGENASE; DAILY SPERM PRODUCTION; DB(A); DECIBEL, A-WEIGHTED; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; DLS; DSP; DYNAMIC LASER SCATTERING; ENDOTOXIN UNITS; ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES; ENP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (USA); EPA; EU; GD; GESTATION DAY; HE; HEMATOXYLIN AND EOSIN; ICP-OES; IL; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; INTERLEUKIN; LUNG AND LIVER PATHOLOGY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; MWCNT; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (USA); NIOSH; OPTICAL ABSORPTION INDEX; OPTICAL REFRACTIVE INDEX; PND; POSTNATAL DAY; PPI; PREGNANCY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; R(A); R(I); REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; ROS; SAP; SD; SEM; SERUM AMYLOID PROTEIN; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN; SWCNT; TEM; TGA; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TNF; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; XRD;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84882664501     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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