Silicon Dioxide

"Silicon Dioxide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Transparent, tasteless crystals found in nature as agate, amethyst, chalcedony, cristobalite, flint, sand, QUARTZ, and tridymite. The compound is insoluble in water or acids except hydrofluoric acid.

Descriptor ID	D012822
MeSH Number(s)	D01.578.750 D01.650.550.825 D01.837.725
Concept/Terms	Silicon Dioxide Silicon Dioxide Dioxide, Silicon Silica Tridymite Cristobalite Quso G-32 Quso G-32 Quso G 32 Quso G32 G32, Quso Aerosil Aerosil Aerosil 380 380, Aerosil

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Silicon Dioxide".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Inorganic Chemicals [D01]
Minerals [D01.578]
Silicon Dioxide [D01.578.750]
Oxygen Compounds [D01.650]
Oxides [D01.650.550]
Silicon Dioxide [D01.650.550.825]
Silicon Compounds [D01.837]
Silicon Dioxide [D01.837.725]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Silicon Dioxide".

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Silicon Dioxide
Diatomaceous Earth
Quartz

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Bar chart showing 49 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	1	1
1999	1	1	2
2001	1	0	1
2003	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	1	1	2
2006	1	1	2
2007	3	0	3
2008	0	3	3
2009	1	2	3
2010	1	2	3
2011	0	1	1
2012	2	0	2
2013	1	1	2
2014	2	0	2
2015	3	1	4
2016	2	1	3
2018	1	1	2
2019	2	1	3
2020	0	1	1
2021	0	2	2
2022	0	2	2
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

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Nourmohammadi M, Rahimi Moghadam S, Jalalian Moghadam A, Yari S. Assessment of Cancer Rate in Mine Workers Exposed to Crystalline Silica. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2025 Apr 01; 26(4):1173-1179.

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Weisany W, Yousefi S, Soufiani SP, Pashang D, McClements DJ, Ghasemlou M. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles: A versatile platform for encapsulation and delivery of essential oils for food applications. Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2024 Mar; 325:103116.

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Soto ER, Specht CA, Rus F, Lee CK, Abraham A, Levitz SM, Ostroff GR. An efficient (nano) silica - In glucan particles protein encapsulation approach for improved thermal stability. J Control Release. 2023 05; 357:175-184.

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Hufziger KA, Farquharson EL, Werner BG, Chen Q, Goddard JM, Nugen SR. In Vivo Capsid Engineering of Bacteriophages for Oriented Surface Conjugation. ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2022 11 21; 5(11):5104-5112.

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Peukert K, Steinhagen F, Fox M, Feuerborn C, Schulz S, Seeliger B, Schuss P, Schneider M, Frede S, Sauer A, Putensen C, Latz E, Wilhelm C, Bode C. Tetracycline ameliorates silica-induced pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis via inhibition of caspase-1. Respir Res. 2022 Feb 07; 23(1):21.

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Gopalakrishnan S, Pan S, Fernandez A, Lee J, Bai Y, Wang LS, Thayumanavan S, Duan X, Rotello VM. Hypersound-Assisted Size Sorting of Microparticles on Inkjet-Patterned Protein Films. Langmuir. 2021 03 02; 37(8):2826-2832.

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Bielecki PA, Lorkowski ME, Becicka WM, Atukorale PU, Moon TJ, Zhang Y, Wiese M, Covarrubias G, Ravichandran S, Karathanasis E. Immunostimulatory silica nanoparticle boosts innate immunity in brain tumors. Nanoscale Horiz. 2021 02 01; 6(2):156-167.

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Luther DC, Huang R, Jeon T, Zhang X, Lee YW, Nagaraj H, Rotello VM. Delivery of drugs, proteins, and nucleic acids using inorganic nanoparticles. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2020; 156:188-213.

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Rubio L, Pyrgiotakis G, Beltran-Huarac J, Zhang Y, Gaurav J, Deloid G, Spyrogianni A, Sarosiek KA, Bello D, Demokritou P. Safer-by-design flame-sprayed silicon dioxide nanoparticles: the role of silanol content on ROS generation, surface activity and cytotoxicity. Part Fibre Toxicol. 2019 10 29; 16(1):40.

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Huang L, Kakadiaris E, Vaneckova T, Huang K, Vaculovicova M, Han G. Designing next generation of photon upconversion: Recent advances in organic triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion nanoparticles. Biomaterials. 2019 05; 201:77-86.

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