Co-exposure with CeO2NPs results in an antagonistic effect on the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of TiO2NP on A549 cells

Objective: Assess the CYTOTOXIC and GENOTOXIC POTENTIAL resulting from titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2NP) and cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeO2NP) co-exposure in human lung epithelial cell line A549. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in the framework of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029651. This work was also financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of project UIDB/04750/2020 and UIDB/50011/2020 + UIDP/50011/2020. A.T. Reis thanks the financial support of FCT through individual Grant SFRH/BPD/122112/2016. C.B. Lopes and A.C. Estrada acknowledge their research position funded by national funds (OE), through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion