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Published in final edited form as: Nanotoxicology. 2010 Nov 3;5:531–545. doi: 10.3109/17435390.2010.530004

Table I.

Effect of CeO₂ on bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cell populations.

Strain	Treatment	Total cells (×10³)	Macrophages (×10³)	Epithelial cells (×10³)	Neutrophils (×10³)	Eosinophils (×10³)	Lymphocytes (×10³)
C57BL/6	Saline	39.6 ± 1.7	35.0 ± 1.7	4.0 ± 1.3	0.4 ± 0.3	0.1 ± 0.1	0.5 ± 0.2
C57BL/6	10 μg CeO₂	27.3 ± 7.1	21 ± 8.6	2.5 ± 4.7	2.4 ± 1.3^★	0.2 ± 0.1	1.2 ± 0.7
C57BL/6	30 μg CeO₂	23 ± 5.7	17 ± 2.5	2.3 ± 1.4	2.3 ± 1.2^★	0.5 ± 0.4	2.0 ± 0.9^★
C57BL/6	100 μg CeO₂	91.5 ± 8.9^★	81.1 ± 8.2^★	5.8 ± 0.9	3.3 ± 1.0^★	0.1 ± 0.1	1.3 ± 0.2^★
B6.Cg-Kit^W-sh	Saline	48.9 ± 5.0	42.5 ± 5.4	4.9 ± 1.1	0.4 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.2	0.9 ± 0.2
B6.Cg-Kit^W-sh	100 μg CeO₂	61.8 ± 5.7^†	53.0 ± 5.3^†	6.3 ± 2.5	1.8 ± 1.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.7 ± 0.3

Values are mean ± SEM. n = 5–10/group.

^★

p < 0.05 vs saline within strain.

^†

p < 0.05 vs C57BL/6 within treatment.