Can TiC nanoparticles produce toxicity in oral administration to rats?

Toxicology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 172-187

  Laloy, Julie ^a,b   Lozano, Omar ^a,c   Alpan, Lütfiye ^a,b   Mejia, Jorge ^a,c   Toussaint, Olivier ^a,d   Masereel, Bernard ^a,b   Dogné, Jean Michel ^a,b   Lucas, Stéphane ^a,c  

^a University of Namur   (Belgium)

^b Department of Pharmacy Namur Medicine Drug Innovation Center (NAMEDIC)   (Belgium)

^c Research Centre for the Physics of Matter and Radiation (PMR)   (Belgium)

^d Laboratory of Biochemistry and Cellular Biology (URBC)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodistribution; Histopathology; PIXE; Plasma; Titanium carbide nanoparticle; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; NANOPARTICLE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TITANIUM CARBIDE; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PARTICLE INDUCED X RAY EMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; URINALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84921491359     PISSN: 22147500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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