• openAccess   Additives for reducing the toxicity of respirable crystalline silica. SILIFE project 

      Monfort, Eliseo; López Lilao, Ana; Escrig, Alberto; Ibáñez, María Jesús; Bonvicini, Giuliana; Creutzenberg, Otto; Ziemann, Christina EDP Sciences (2017-10-23)
      Prolonged inhalation of crystalline silica particles has long been known to cause lung inflammation and development of the granulomatous and a fibrogenic lung disease known as silicosis . The International ...
    • openAccess   The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity? 

      Pavan, Cristina; Delle Piane, Massimo; Gullo, Maria; Filippi, Francesca; Fubini, Bice; Hoet, Peter; Horwell, Claire J.; Huaux, François; Lison, Dominique; Lo Giudice, Cristina; Martra, Gianmario; Monfort, Eliseo; Schins, Roel; Sulpizi, Marialore; Wegner, Karsten; Wyart-Remy, Michelle; Ziemann, Christina; Turci, Francesco Springer Nature (2019)
      Background: Silica continues to represent an intriguing topic of fundamental and applied research across various scientific fields, from geology to physics, chemistry, cell biology, and particle toxicology. The pathogenic ...