Interview with Mint Newspaper (Indian Wall Street Journal) on toxicity of nanoparticles:

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Selected Recent Papers:

• Kumari, M., Sachar, S. and Saxena, R.K. (2012) Loss of proliferative and antigen presentation activity following active internalization of poly-dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes by primary lung epithelial cells PLOS one (in press)
• Sachar, S and Saxena R.K. (2011) Cytotoxic effect of poly-dispersed single walled carbon nano-tubes on mouse erythrocytes. PLOS one 6(7):e22032.
• Kumari, M. and Saxena, R.K. (2011) Relative efficacy of uptake and presentation of BCG antigens by type I mouse lung epithelial cells and peritoneal macrophages. Infection and Immunity Infection and Immunity Aug;79(8):3159-67.
• Saxena, R.K., McClure, M, Hays, M., Green, F.H.Y., McPhee, L.J., Vallyathan, V. and Gilmour, M.I. (2010) Quantitative assessment of elemental carbon in the lungs of never smokers, cigarette smokers and coal miners. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health. 74: 706-715.
• Lalitha, P.V., Biswas, S., Pillai, C.R., Seth, R.K. and Saxena, R.K. (2010) Expression, purification and characterization of allelic variants of MSP-142 from Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates Vaccine 26: 4528-4535.
• Tong, H., McGee, J.K., Saxena, R.K., Kodavanti, U.P., Devlin, R. , Gilmour, M.I. (2009) Influence of Acid Functionalization on the Cardio-Pulmonary Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Black Particles in Mice. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 239 :224-32.
• Saxena, R.K., Gilmour, M.I., Schladweiler, M.C., McClure, M., Hays, M. and Kodavanti, U.P. (2009). Differential Pulmonary Retention of Diesel Exhaust Particles in Wistar Kyoto and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Toxicological Sci. 111:392-401.