Table 1.

The toxicity of Ag NMs in a selected number of studies

Publication	Ag NM utilized	Model(s)	24 h – LC50
Gaiser et al., 2011	Ag 35 nm	C3A cells	50 μg·mL−1
		Primary trout hepatocytes	1000 μg·mL−1
Kim et al., 2009	Ag 5–10 nm	HepG2 cells	1.95–3.38 μg·mL−1
Piao et al., 2011	Ag 28–35 nm	Chang liver cells	4 μg·mL−1
Kermanizadeh et al., 2012; 2013b,c	Ag <20 nm	C3A cells	1.25 μg·cm−2
		Primary human hepatocytes	2.5 μg·cm−2
		Primary rat Kupffer cells and hepatocytes	1.25 μg·cm−2