Carbon nanotubes: a summary of beneficial and dangerous aspects of an increasingly popular group of nanomaterials

C Zhang, L Wu, M de Perrot, X Zhao - frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are nanomaterials with broad applications that are produced on
a large scale. Animal experiments have shown that exposure to CNTs, especially one type …

Do carbon nanotubes and asbestos fibers exhibit common toxicity mechanisms?

SS Gupta, KP Singh, S Gupta, M Dusinska, Q Rahman - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the last two decades several nanoscale materials were engineered for industrial and
medical applications. Among them carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the most exploited …

Toxicity of carbon nanotubes as anti-tumor drug carriers

H Yan, Z Xue, J Xie, Y Dong, Z Ma, X Sun… - International journal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticle drug formulations have enormous application prospects owing to achievement
of targeted and sustained release drug delivery, improvement in drug solubility and …

Integration of inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer induced by carbon nanotubes

J Dong, Q Ma - Nanotoxicology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are nanomaterials with unique physicochemical properties that
are targets of great interest for industrial and commercial applications. Notwithstanding …

Assessment of the carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes in the respiratory system

M Barbarino, A Giordano - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer of the membranes
covering the lung and chest cavity (pleura) or the abdomen (peritoneum), mainly linked to …

Polarization of immune cells in the pathologic response to inhaled particulates

Q Ma - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polarization of immune cells is commonly observed in host responses associated with
microbial immunity, inflammation, tumorigenesis, and tissue repair and fibrosis. In this …

P-glycoprotein-targeted photothermal therapy of drug-resistant cancer cells using antibody-conjugated carbon nanotubes

X Suo, BN Eldridge, H Zhang, C Mao… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
P-Glycoprotein (Pgp)-medicated multidrug resistance (MDR) remains a formidable
challenge to cancer therapy. As conventional approaches using small-molecule inhibitors …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated approach to testing and assessment of high aspect ratio nanomaterials and its application for grouping based on a common mesothelioma …

F Murphy, S Dekkers, H Braakhuis, L Ma-Hock… - NanoImpact, 2021 - Elsevier
Here we describe the development of an Integrated Approach to Testing and Assessment
(IATA) to support the grouping of different types (nanoforms; NFs) of High Aspect Ratio …

How asbestos drives the tissue towards tumors: YAP activation, macrophage and mesothelial precursor recruitment, RNA editing, and somatic mutations

H Rehrauer, L Wu, W Blum, L Pecze, T Henzi… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Chronic exposure to intraperitoneal asbestos triggered a marked response in the
mesothelium well before tumor development. Macrophages, mesothelial precursor cells …

Differences in MWCNT-and SWCNT-induced DNA methylation alterations in association with the nuclear deposition

D Öner, M Ghosh, H Bové, M Moisse, B Boeckx… - Particle and fibre …, 2018 - Springer
Background Subtle DNA methylation alterations mediated by carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
exposure might contribute to pathogenesis and disease susceptibility. It is known that both …