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Pharmacological Prevention of the Toxicity Induced by Environmental Nanomaterials

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Nanotoxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans

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An increasing evidence has suggested that surface chemical modifications may not be able to effectively or completely reduce the toxicity of nanomaterials under certain physiological conditions or genetic backgrounds. Along with the progress on different surface chemical modifications of nanomaterials, the design of effective pharmacological prevention strategies against the toxicity of nanomaterials has received the attention gradually. In this chapter, we will introduce and discuss the value and progress on using C. elegans as an in vivo assay system to design different effective pharmacological prevention strategies against the toxicity of nanomaterials.

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Wang, D. (2018). Pharmacological Prevention of the Toxicity Induced by Environmental Nanomaterials. In: Nanotoxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0233-6_11

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