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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2015 Mar 25;11(6):1377–1385. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2015.03.007

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Total cell number recovered by BAL from the lungs (#/ml). Greater than 98% of the cells recovered by BAL were alveolar macrophages. There was no significant difference in total cell numbers between control (open bars) and MSN-exposed mice (closed bars). Numerous macrophages were found to contain fluorescent-labelled MSN at both 1 and 7 days following inhalation. No obvious injury was observed with all BAL samples having greater than 95% cell viability in both control and MSN-exposed mice. Control mice: n=8 / time-point; MSN mice: n=8 / time-point.