Acute pulmonary dose-responses to inhaled multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1179-1194

  Porter, Dale W ^a,b   Hubbs, Ann F ^a   Chen, Bean T ^a   McKinney, Walter ^a   Mercer, Robert R ^a,b   Wolfarth, Michael G ^a   Battelli, Lori ^a   Wu, Nianqiang ^c   Sriram, Krishnan ^a   Leonard, Stephen ^a   Andrew, Michael ^a   Willard, Patsy ^a   Tsuruoka, Shuji ^d   Endo, Morinobu ^d   Tsukada, Takayuki ^e   Munekane, Fuminori ^e   Frazer, David G ^a,b   Castranova, Vincent ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c West Virginia University   (United States)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Hodogaya Chemical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Characterisation; Fibrosis; Inflammation; Lung burden; Pleural penetration

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; EXPOSURE; FENTON REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTROPHY; LUNG BURDEN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AEROSOLS; ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FIBROSIS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEUTROPHILS; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMONIA; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84885121456     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2012.719649     Document Type: Article

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