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In the 4-week inhalation studies, the average exposure concentrations were 0.32 and 1.65 mg\/m3 for NiO, and 0.50 and 1.84 mg\/m3 for TiO2. In the instillation studies, 0.2 and 1.0 mg of NiO nanoparticles and 0.2, 0.36, and 1.0 mg of TiO2 were dispersed in 0.4 mL water and instilled to rats. After the exposure, the lung burden in each of five rats was determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES) from 3 days to 3 months for inhalation studies and to 6 months for instillation studies. In both the inhalation and instillation studies, NiO nanoparticles persisted for longer in the lung compared with TiO2 nanoparticles, and the calculated biological half times (BHTs) of the NiO nanoparticles was longer than that of the TiO2 nanoparticles. Biopersistence also correlated with histopathological changes, inflammatory response, and other biomarkers in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) after the exposure to nanoparticles. 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