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Table 5 Percentage of Ni in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) per Ni in total lung post-administration

From: Kinetics and dissolution of intratracheally administered nickel oxide nanomaterials in rats

  

(Ni in BALF) / (Ni in lung and BALF)

  

3 days after i.t.

28 days after i.t.

91 days after i.t.

NiO A

0.57 mg/kg-bw

2.4% ± 1.2%

0.84% ± 0.11%

1.2% ± 0.24%

1.9 mg/kg-bw

0.59% ± 0.043%

0.89% ± 0.043%

0.60% ± 0.041%

5.8 mg/kg-bw

0.79% ± 0.52%

2.5% ± 0.70%

0.89% ± 0.48%

NiO B

0.45 mg/kg-bw

3.0% ± 0.88%

31% ± 13%

76% ± 17%

1.5 mg/kg-bw

4.0% ± 1.0%

19% ± 5.0%

38% ± 2.9%

4.0 mg/kg-bw

2.8% ± 0.82%

8.9% ± 1.8%

22% ± 5.8%

NiO C

0.47 mg/kg-bw

1.7% ± 0.72%

3.2% ± 1.4%

5.0% ± 1.5%

2.0 mg/kg-bw

3.2% ± 1.4%

2.5% ± 0.86%

3.1% ± 1.1%

5.8 mg/kg-bw

5.0% ± 1.5%

1.3% ± 1.4%

1.2% ± 0.93%

NiO D

0.50 mg/kg-bw

2.4% ± 0.29%

3.7% ± 1.7%

2.5% ± 0.33%

1.6 mg/kg-bw

1.8% ± 0.61%

5.7% ± 1.1%

3.2% ± 0.68%

5.0 mg/kg-bw

2.0% ± 0.42%

2.7% ± 1.3%

4.8% ± 1.5%