Long-term polarization of alveolar macrophages to a profibrotic phenotype after inhalation exposure to multi-wall carbon nanotubes

• Kunihiro Otsuka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Koichi Yamada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Yuhji Taquahashi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Division of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology, Biological Safety Research Center, National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Rieko Arakaki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Aya Ushio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Masako Saito,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Parasitology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Akiko Yamada,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Takaaki Tsunematsu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Yasusei Kudo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Jun Kanno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Japan Bioassay Research Center, Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Naozumi Ishimaru

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ishimaru.n@tokushima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1087-8338

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