Transcriptomic analysis reveals novel mechanistic insight into murine biological responses to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in lungs and cultured lung epithelial cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Poulsen, Sarah Ssø ^a,d   Jacobsen, Nicklas R ^a   Labib, Sarah ^b   Wu, Dongmei ^b   Husain, Mainul ^b   Williams, Andrew ^b   Bøgelund, Jesper P ^c   Andersen, Ole ^d   Kbøler, Carsten ^e   Mløhave, Kristian ^e   Kyjovska, Zdenka O ^a   Saber, Anne T ^a   Wallin, Håkan ^a,f   Yauk, Carole L ^b   Vogel, Ulla ^a,e   Halappanavar, Sabina ^b  

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

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84894122494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080452     Document Type: Article

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