References
- Borm PJA, Driscoll K. (1996). Particles, inflammation and respiratory tract carcinogenesis. Toxicol Lett. 88(1):109–113.
- Cho H, Lee J, Kwak NJ, Lee KH, Rha S, Kim YH, Cho YY, Yang KH, Kim K, Lim Y. (2003). Silica induces nuclear factor-kappaB activation through TAK1 and NIK in rat2 cell line. Toxicol Lett 143(3):323–330.
- Endoh S, Uchida K. (2008). Preparation of suspension of nano-sized particles for toxicology test. In International symposium on the risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials, NEDO-AIST-OECD, Tokyo, pp. 36–40.
- Driscoll KE, Hassenbein DG, Carter J, Poynter J, Asquith TN, Grant RA, Whiteen J, Purdon MP, Takigiku R. (1993). Macrophage inflammatory proteins 1 and 2: Expression by rat alveolar macrophages, fibroblasts, and epithelial cells and in rat lung after mineral dust exposure. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol: 8:311–318.
- Endoh S, Uchida K. (2008). Preparation of suspension of nano-sized particles for toxicology test. In International symposium on the risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials, NEDO-AIST-OECD, Tokyo, pp. 36–40.
- Fujita K, Morimoto Y, Ogami A, Tanaka I, Endoh S, Uchida K, Tao H, Akasaka M, Inada M, Yamamoto K, Fukui H, Hayakawa M, Horie M, Saito Y, Yoshida Y, Iwahashi H, Niki E, Nakanishi J. (2009). A gene expression profiling approach to study the influence of ultrafine particles on rat lungs. In Atmospheric and biological environmental monitoring, eds. JY Kim, U Platt, MB Gu, H Iwahashi. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, in press.
- Hirota R, Akimaru K, Nakamura H. (2008). In vitro toxicity evaluation of diesel exhaust particles on human eosinophilic cell. Toxicol In Vitro 22(4):988–994.
- International Committee on Nickel Carcinogenesis in Man. (1990). Report of the International Committee on Nickel Carcinogenesis in Man. Scand J Work Environ Health 16:1–82.
- Kim H, Morimoto Y, Ogami A, Nagatomo H, Hirohashi M, Oyabu T, Kawanami Y, Kuroda K, Higashi T, Tanaka I. (2007). Differential expression of EC-SOD, Mn-SOD, and CuZn-SOD in rat lung exposed to crystalline silica. J Occup Health 49(3):242–248.
- Mercer RR, Scabilloni J, Wang L, Kisin E, Murray AR, Schwegler-Berry D, Shvedova AA, Castranova V. (2008). Alteration of deposition pattern and pulmonary response as a result of improved dispersion of aspirated single-wall carbon nanotubes in a mouse model. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 294:L87–L97.
- Mitsuhashi H, Hata J, Asano S, Kishimoto T. (1999). Apperarance of cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant isoforms and immunolocalization of them in lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung inflammation in rats. Inflamm Res 48:588–593.
- Morimoto Y, Tsuda T, Hirohashi M, Yamato H, Hori H, Ogami A, Yatera K, Kim H, Ding L, Kido M, Higashi T, Tanaka I. (1999). Effects of mineral fibers on the gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines and inducible nitric-oxide synthase in alveolar macrophages. Ind Health 37:329–334.
- Morimoto Y, Ogami A, Oyabu T, Masahiro M, Myojo T, Hirohashi M, Yamasaki S, Nishi K, Kadoya T, Todoroki M, Yamamoto M, Tanaka I. (2008). Lung injury induced by inhaled nanoparticle of metal. Respir Mol Med 12(1):65–70.
- Muller J, Huaux F, Moreau N, Misson P, Heiler J-F, Delos M, Arras M, Fonseca A, Nagy JB, Lison D. (2005). Respiratory toxicology of multi-wall carbon nanotubes. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 207:221–231.
- Ogami A, Morimoto Y, Myojo T, Oyabu T, Murakami M, Todoroki M, Nishi K, Kadoya C, Yamamoto M, Tanaka I. (2009). Pathological features of different sizes of nickel oxide following intratracheal instillation in rats. Inhal Toxicol in press.
- Okuyama K, Wang WN, Iskandar F. (2007). Technology innovation in the nanoparticle project—Synthesis of nanoparticles and nanocomposites. KONA 25:237–243.
- Oyabu T, Ogami A, Morimoto Y, Shimada M, Lenggoro W, Okuyama K, Tanaka I. (2007). Biopersistence of inhaled nickel oxide nanoparicles in rat lung. Inhal Toxicol 19(suppl. 1):55–58.
- Pope CA. (2007). Mortality effects of long term exposure to fine particulate air pollution: Review of recent epidemiological evidence. Inhal Toxicol 19(suppl. 1):33–38.
- Pope CA, Burnett RA, Thun MJ, Cale EE, Ito K, Thurston GD. (2002). Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. JAMA 287(9):1132–1141.
- Reimer L. (1993). Transmission electron microscopy, 3rd ed., pp. 402–403. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Shacter E, Weitzman SA. (2002). Chronic inflammation and cancer. Oncology 16:217–232.
- Shukla A, Timblin C, BeruBe K, Gordon T, McKinney W, Driscoll K, Vacek P, Mossman BT. (2000). Inhaled particulate matter causes expression of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB-related genes and oxidant-dependent NF-kappaB activation in vitro. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 23(2):182–187.
- Shwe TT, Yamamoto S, Kakeyama M, Kobayashi T, Fujimaki H. (2005). Effect of intratracheal instillation of ultrafine carbon black on proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine release and mRNA expression in lung and lymph nodes of mice. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 209(1):51–61.
- Tokuda A, Itakura M, Onai N, Kimura H, Kuriyama T, Matsushima K. (2000). Pivotal role of CCR1-positive leukocytes in bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in mice. J Immunol 164:2745–2751.
- US DHHS. (1996). NTP technical report on the toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of nickel oxide (CAS NO. 1313-99-1) in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice (inhalation studies). NTP TR 451, NIH publication No. 94-3363. Research Triangle park, NC: US DHHS.
- Warheit DB, Laurence BR, Reed KL, Roach DH, Webb TR. (2004). Comparative pulmonary toxicity assessment of single-wall carbon nanotubes in rats. Toxicol Sci 77:117–125.
- Warheit DB, Webb TR, Reed KL, Frerichs S, Sayes CM. (2006). Pulmonary toxicity study in rats with three forms of ultrafine-TiO2 particles: Differential responses related to surface properties. Toxicology 230:90–104.
- Watanabe K, Konishi K, Fujioka M, Kinoshita S, Nakagawa H. (1989). The neutrophil chemoattaractant produced by the rat kidney epithelioid cell line NRK-52E is a protein related to the KC/gro protein. J Biol Chem 264:19559–19563.
- Watanabe K, Koizumi F, Kurashige Y. (1991). Rat CINC, a member of the interleukin-8 family, is a neutrophil-specific chemoattractant in vivo. Exp Mol Pathol 55:30–37.
- Yokota S, Seki T, Furuya M, Ohara N. (2005). Acute functional enhancement of circulatory neutrophils after intratracheal instillation with diesel exhaust particles in rats. Inhal Toxicol 17(12):671–679.