The long and short of carbon nanotube toxicity (original) (raw)

Toxicological and pharmacological studies suggest guidelines for the safe use of carbon nanotubes in medicine.

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Figure 1: Factors influencing the safety of CNTs in vivo.

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Kostas Kostarelos is at the Nanomedicine Lab, Centre for Drug Delivery Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AX, UK. kostas.kostarelos@pharmacy.ac.uk ,
Kostas Kostarelos

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