In vivo biocompatibility of boron nitride nanotubes: Effects on stem cell biology and tissue regeneration in planarians

Nanomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1911-1922

  Salvetti, Alessandra ^a   Rossi, Leonardo ^a   Iacopetti, Paola ^a   Li, Xia ^b   Nitti, Simone ^c   Pellegrino, Teresa ^c   Mattoli, Virgilio ^d   Golberg, Dmitri ^b   Ciofani, Gianni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d Center for Micro BioRobotics at SSSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

blastema; boron nitride nanotubes; DNA damage; oxidative stress; planarians

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOSAFETY; BLASTEMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BORON COMPOUNDS; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84936946060     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.15.46     Document Type: Article

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