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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-015-3054-x
Keywords
Titanium dioxide; Nanoparticle; Intratracheal instillation; Pulmonary inflammation; Chemokine; Environmental and health effects
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- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan
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In order to investigate the pulmonary toxicity of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, we performed an intratracheal instillation study with rats of well-dispersed TiO2 nanoparticles and examined the pulmonary inflammation and histopathological changes in the lung. Wistar Hannover rats were intratracheally administered 0.2 mg (0.66 mg/kg) and 1.0 mg (3.3 mg/kg) of well-dispersed TiO2 nanoparticles (P90; diameter of agglomerates: 25 nm), then the pulmonary inflammation responses were examined from 3 days to 6 months after the instillation, and the pathological features were examined up to 24 months. Transient inflammation and the upregulation of chemokines in the broncho-alveolar lavage fluid were observed for 1 month. No respiratory tumors or severe fibrosis were observed during the recovery time. These data suggest that transient inflammation induced by TiO2 may not lead to chronic, irreversible legions in the lung, and that TiO2 nanoparticles may not have a high potential for lung disorder.
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