In Vivo Genotoxicity Assessment of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Allium cepa Root Tip Assay at High Exposure Concentrations

Sunandan Pakrashi; Nitin Jain; Swayamprava Dalai; Jerobin Jayakumar; Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran; Ashok M. Raichur; Natarajan Chandrasekaran; Amitava Mukherjee

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087789

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In Vivo Genotoxicity Assessment of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Allium cepa Root Tip Assay at High Exposure Concentrations

Sunandan Pakrashi,

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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Nitin Jain,

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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Swayamprava Dalai,

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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Jerobin Jayakumar,

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran,

Affiliation Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Ashok M. Raichur,

Affiliations Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Natarajan Chandrasekaran,

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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Amitava Mukherjee

* E-mail: amit.mookerjea@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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In Vivo Genotoxicity Assessment of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles by Allium cepa Root Tip Assay at High Exposure Concentrations

Sunandan Pakrashi,
Nitin Jain,
Swayamprava Dalai,
Jerobin Jayakumar,
Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran,
Ashok M. Raichur,
Natarajan Chandrasekaran,
Amitava Mukherjee

Published: February 4, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087789

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corrections in authors's contribution

Posted by amitav on 12 Feb 2014 at 10:37 GMT

Dear Colleague,

The author contributions are given wrongly in the paper, I request you to change this to:

"Conceived and designed the experiments: SP, AM. Performed the experiments: SP, SD, NJ, JJ, PTC. Analyzed the data: SP, AM, NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM, AMR, NC. Wrote the paper: SD, SP, NJ, AM."

There was a serious flaw in assigning contributions while submission. As a corresponding author, on behalf of all the authors, I request you to change this as soon as possible in the online version.

thanks and regards,

Amitava Mukherjee (corresponding author)
amitav@vit.ac.in

No competing interests declared.

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