The effects of carbon nanotubes on lung and dermal cellular behaviors

Nanomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 895-912

  Luanpitpong, Sudjit ^a   Wang, Liying ^b   Rojanasakul, Yon ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; carbon nanotubes; carcinogenicity; cellular behavior; cytotoxicity; dermal exposure; genotoxicity; inflammation; lung fibrosis; pulmonary exposure

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CARCINOGEN; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; EXPOSURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TOXICITY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN CELL; SKIN TOXICITY; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; LUNG; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; SKIN; TOXICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MUTAGENS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SKIN;

EID: 84903775463     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.14.42     Document Type: Review

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