Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT): induction of DNA damage in plant and mammalian cells

M Ghosh, A Chakraborty, M Bandyopadhyay… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2011 - Elsevier
Increasing use of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) necessitates an improved
understanding of their potential impact on environment health. In the present study we …

Multi‐walled carbon nanotubes induce cytotoxicity and genotoxicity in human lung epithelial cells

D Cavallo, C Fanizza, CL Ursini… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing use of nanomaterials in consumer products highlights the importance of
understanding their potential toxic effects. We evaluated cytotoxic and genotoxic/oxidative …

Genotoxic and cell-transformation effects of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) following in vitro sub-chronic exposures

G Vales, L Rubio, R Marcos - Journal of hazardous materials, 2016 - Elsevier
BEAS-2B cells were sub-chronically exposed (up to 4 weeks) to low doses of multi-walled
carbon nanotubes (MWCNT, NM403). Genotoxic effects were evaluated using the comet …

Evaluation of the cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of benchmark multi-walled carbon nanotubes in relation to their physicochemical properties

H Louro, M Pinhão, J Santos, A Tavares, N Vital… - Toxicology Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
To contribute with scientific evidence to the grouping strategy for the safety assessment of
multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), this work describes the investigation of the …

Absence of mutagenic and recombinagenic activity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the Drosophila wing-spot test and Allium cepa test

LR de Andrade, AS Brito, AMG de Souza Melero… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to assess the safety of the carbon nanotubes to human health and the environment,
we investigated the potential toxicity and ability of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (NT), to …

Comparative study of the clastogenicity of functionalized and nonfunctionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes in bone marrow cells of Swiss‐Webster mice

AK Patlolla, SM Hussain, JJ Schlager… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The development of nanotechnologies may lead to environmental release of nanomaterials
that are potentially harmful to human health. Among the nanomaterials, multiwalled carbon …

Carbon nanotubes induce oxidative DNA damage in RAW 264.7 cells

L Migliore, D Saracino, A Bonelli… - Environmental and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The induction of DNA and chromosome damage following in vitro exposure to carbon
nanotubes (CNT) was assessed on the murine macrophage cell line RAW 264.7 by means …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-walled carbon nanotubes induce cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and apoptosis in normal human dermal fibroblast cells

A Patlolla, B Knighten, P Tchounwou - Ethnicity & disease, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Multi walled carbon nanotubes [MWCNT's] have won enormous popularity in
nanotechnology. Due to their unusual one dimensional, hollow nanostructure and unique …

Mechanisms of multi-walled carbon nanotubes–induced oxidative stress and genotoxicity in mouse fibroblast cells

S Alarifi, D Ali - International Journal of Toxicology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The extensive production and wide application of carbon nanotubes have made
investigations of its toxic potentials necessary. In the present study, we explored the …

Multiwall carbon nanotube-induced DNA damage and cytotoxicity in male human peripheral blood lymphocytes

JS Kim, KS Song, IJ Yu - International journal of toxicology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been introduced recently as a novel carrier system for both
small and large therapeutic molecules. Biotin-functionalized single-wall CNTs have been …