When carbon nanotubes encounter the immune system: Desirable and undesirable effects

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2120-2126

  Dumortier, Hélène ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomedical application; Carbon nanotubes; Functionalization; Immune cell activation; Immune system; Inflammation; Lymphocyte; Macrophage; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; EFFICIENT PROTECTIONS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; IMMUNE CELLS; INCREASING PRODUCTION; INFLAMMATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY;

IMMUNE SYSTEM;

CRYOPYRIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IBUPROFEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VACCINATION;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION; CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZATION; IMMUNE CELL ACTIVATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION EXPOSURE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84888873074     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2013.09.005     Document Type: Review

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