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Preclinical studies on safety of fullerene upon acute oral administration and evaluation for no mutagenesis.
Toxicology - 1 Aug 2006
Mori Tomohisa, Takada Hiroya, Ito Shinobu, Matsubayashi Kenji, Miwa Nobuhiko, Sawaguchi Toshiko
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Fullerenes characterized as an antioxidant are believed to reduce various reactive chemical species, such as free radicals, and their characteristic features have been disclosed to furnish many useful medical technologies. Despite the numerous applications for the biological efficacy of fullerenes, less is known about the toxicity of fullerenes in mammals. Hence, the protocol was designed to determine the acute...
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