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Comment
. 2007 Jun;115(6):A290.
doi: 10.1289/ehp.115-1892118.

Concepts of nanoparticle dose metric and response metric

Günter Oberdörster, Eva Oberdörster, Jan Oberdörster
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Concepts of nanoparticle dose metric and response metric

Günter Oberdörster et al. Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Jun.
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Inflammatory cell response in lung lavage 24 hr after intratracheal instillation of fine (~ 250 nm) and ultrafine (20–30 nm) TiO2 expressed by different dose metrics [particle mass (A,B), number (C,D), and surface area (E,F)] and different response metrics [number of PMNs (A,C,E) and PMN/macrophage ratio (B,D,F)].
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