Identifying contact-mediated, localized toxic effects of MWCNT aggregates on epithelial monolayers: A single-cell monitoring toxicity assay

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 230-241

  Rotoli, Bianca M ^a   Gatti, Rita ^a   Movia, Dania ^b   Bianchi, Massimiliano G ^a   Di Cristo, Luisana ^a   Fenoglio, Ivana ^c   Sonvico, Fabio ^d   Bergamaschi, Enrico ^a   Prina Mello, Adriele ^b,e   Bussolati, Ovidio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cytotoxicity; Lung epithelial barrier; Proliferation; Trans epithelial electrical resistance

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CASPASE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SURFACTANT;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LEVEL; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY ASSAY;

EID: 84964290461     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2014.918203     Document Type: Article

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