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Published in final edited form as: Nanotechnol Rev. 2012 Mar;1(2):111–146. doi: 10.1515/ntrev-2011-0005

Table 1.

Examples of nanotoxicology studies from the recent literature.

Cell function damage or alteration		Samples	Reference
Cellular damage	Membrane	Cationic NP, CNT	[290, 291]
	protein	Metal oxide NP, polystyrene, dentrimer, carbon nanomaterial	[292, 293],
	DNA	AgNPs	[294]
	Mitochondria	Cationic NP, CdSe QD	[290, 295, 296]
	Liposomal	Cationic NP, CNT	[290, 295, 297, 298]
	Endoplasmic reticulum	QD	[296]
	Oxidative stress	UFP, CNT, metal oxide NP, cationic NP	[290, 295, 297–299]
Tissue and organ	Inflammation	Metal oxide NP, CNT	[298, 299]
	Fibrogenesis	CNT	[298, 300],
	Blood	SiO₂, AuNP, TiO₂	[301–303]
	Lung	UFP, AgNP, SiO₂, TiO₂, QD, AuNP	[304–307]
	Brain	UFP, TiO₂	[308, 309]
	Bone marrow	QD, metallo-fullerene, polylactic acid NP	[310]
	Liver, kidney	UFP, AgNP, AuNP	[304, 311, 312]
	Immune system	ZnO	[313]

Largely based on a table in the review by Meng et al. [314].

CNT, carbon nanotube; NP, nanoparticle; QD, quantum dot; UFP, ultrafine particle.