Surface Charge and Cellular Processing of Covalently Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes Determine Pulmonary Toxicity - Li, Ruibin; Wang, Xiang; Ji, Zhaoxia; Sun, Bingbing; Zhang, Haiyuan; Chang, Chong Hyun; Lin, Sijie; Meng, Huan; Liao, Yu-Pei; Wang, Meiying; Li, Zongxi; Hwang, Angela A; et al. (ACS nano, 2013)
Keywords: Animals; Biocompatibility; Biological Transport, Active; Cationic; Cell Line; Cellular; Cytokines - biosynthesis; Fibrosis; Humans; Inflammasomes - drug effects; Inflammasomes - metabolism; Lung - drug effects; Lung - metabolism; Lung - pathology; Lung Injury - chemically induced; Male; Mathematical models; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Multi wall carbon nanotubes; Nanotechnology; Nanotubes, Carbon - chemistry; Nanotubes, Carbon - toxicity; Nanotubes, Carbon - ultrastructure; Polyethylene glycol; Pulmonary Fibrosis - chemically induced; Pulmonary Fibrosis - pathology; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Static Electricity; Surface charge; Surface Properties; Tubes; multiwall carbon nanotube; charge; NLRP3 inflammasome; lung fibrosis; surface functionalization