Sub-chronic toxicity study in rats orally exposed to nanostructured silica

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Van der Zande, Meike ^a   Vandebriel, Rob J ^b   Groot, Maria J ^a   Kramer, Evelien ^a   Herrera Rivera, Zahira E ^a   Rasmussen, Kirsten ^c   Ossenkoppele, Jan S ^a   Tromp, Peter ^d   Gremmer, Eric R ^b   Peters, Ruud J B ^a   Hendriksen, Peter J ^a   Marvin, Hans J P ^a   Hoogenboom, Ron L A P ^a   Peijnenburg, Ad A C M ^a   Bouwmeester, Hans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

In vivo; Nano; Oral exposure; Silica; Synthetic amorphous silica; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ELASTICITY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; JEJUNUM; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84893647571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17438977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8977-11-8     Document Type: Article

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