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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 923475, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/923475
Research Article

Prior Lung Inflammation Impacts on Body Distribution of Gold Nanoparticles

Salik Hussain,1,2,3 Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek,2 Steven Haenen,2 Vincent Haufroid,4 Sonja Boland,1 Francelyne Marano,1 Benoit Nemery,2 and Peter H. M. Hoet2

1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Responses to Xenobiotics, CNRS EAC 7059, Unit of Functional and Adaptive Biology (BFA), Sorbonne Paris Cité, University of Paris Diderot, 75 013 Paris, France
2Lung Toxicology Research Unit, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
3Clinical Research Unit, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina NC 27709, USA
4Louvain Centre for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Catholic University of Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

Received 5 September 2012; Revised 29 November 2012; Accepted 6 December 2012

Academic Editor: Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno

Copyright © 2013 Salik Hussain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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