title: Toward the suppression of cellular toxicity from single-walled carbon nanotubes.
abstract: In the multidisciplinary fields of nanobiology and nanomedicine, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have shown great promise due to their unique morphological, physical and chemical properties. However, understanding and suppressing their cellular toxicity is a mandatory step before promoting their biomedical applications. In light of the flourishing recent literature, we provide here an extensive review on SWCNT cellular toxicity and an attempt to identify the key parameters to be considered in order to obtain SWCNT samples with minimal or no cellular toxicity.
authors.affiliation: Univ. Bordeaux, Laboratoire Photonique Numerique et Nanosciences, UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France and Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France. laurent.cognet@u-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: Zhenghong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Univ. Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France and CNRS, IINS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Juan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Varela
authors.affiliation: Univ. Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France and CNRS, IINS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Groc
authors.affiliation: Univ. Bordeaux, Laboratoire Photonique Numerique et Nanosciences, UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France and Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France. laurent.cognet@u-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: Brahim
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lounis
authors.affiliation: Univ. Bordeaux, Laboratoire Photonique Numerique et Nanosciences, UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France and Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France. laurent.cognet@u-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cognet
mesh_terms: D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000379:methods*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon