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Macrophages bend long fibres with flexural rigidity lower than 3 mN·nm² to avoid frustrated phagocytosis
2025-12-19
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background It is an established toxicological principle that the inhalation pathogenicity of respirable and biodurable fibres is caused by excessive fibre length as alveolar macrophages fail to uptake and remove such fibres. However, studies on carbon nanotubes showed that this principle needs revision, as thin, flexible variants showed reduced fibre-specific toxicity. One potential ex...
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- b3d53a40-ea86-5df6-89f5-ad7886874377
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8317185/v1