MWCNT causes extensive damage to the ciliated epithelium of the trachea of rodents

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 499-505

  Ohba, Teruya ^a   Xu, Jiegou ^a   Alexander, David B ^a   Yamada, Akane ^a   Kanno, Jun ^b   Hirose, Akihiko ^c   Tsuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Imaizumi, Yuji ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Division of Toxicology   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciliated epithelium; MWCNT; Rat; Tracheal damage

Indexed keywords

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CILIARY MOTILITY; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULATION TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; TRACHEA MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; TRACHEA;

EID: 84901367672     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.39.499     Document Type: Article

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