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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 378 - 379 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.182

Subject Categories: Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes | Environmental, health and safety issues

Nanotoxicology: The asbestos analogy revisited

Agnes B. Kane1 & Robert H. Hurt1

  1. Agnes B. Kane and Robert H. Hurt are at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
    e-mail: Agnes_Kane@brown.edu; e-mail: Robert_Hurt@brown.edu


Direct injection of long multiwalled carbon nanotubes into the abdominal cavity of mice produces asbestos-like pathogenic behaviour. What does this finding mean for nanotube safety?

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