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Twenty-Eight-Day Oral Toxicity, Genotoxicity, and Gender-Related Tissue Distribution of Silver Nanoparticles in Sprague-Dawley Rats

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Pages 575-583 | Received 13 Dec 2007, Accepted 18 Dec 2007, Published online: 06 Oct 2008

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