Effect of MWCNT size, carboxylation, and purification on in vitro and in vivo toxicity, inflammation and lung pathology

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hamilton, Raymond F ^a   Wu, Zheqiong ^b   Mitra, Somenath ^b   Shaw, Pamela K ^a   Holian, Andrij ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functionalization; Macrophage; MWCNT; Nanoparticles; NLRP3 inflammasome

Indexed keywords

CRYOPYRIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOPARTICLE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXYLATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

MUS;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84887333639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17438977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8977-10-57     Document Type: Article

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