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Background  Industrially produced quantities of TiO 2  nanoparticles are steadily rising, leading to an increasing risk of inhalation exposure for both professionals and consumers. Particle inhalation can result in inflammatory and allergic responses, and there are concerns about other negative health effects from either acute or chronic low-dose exposure.    Results  To study the fate of inhaled TiO 2 -NP, adult rats were exposed to 2-h intra-tracheal inhalations of  48 V-radiolabeled, 20 nm TiO 2 -NP aerosols (deposited NP-mass 1.4 ± 0.5 μg). At five time points (1 h, 4 h, 24 h, 7d, 28d) post-exposure, a complete balance of the [ 48 V]TiO 2 -NP fate was quantified in organs, tissues, carcass, lavage and body fluids, including excretions.  After fast mucociliary airway clearance (fractional range 0.16–0.31), long-term macrophage-mediated clearance (LT-MC) from the alveolar region is 2.6-fold higher after 28d (integral fraction 0.40 ± 0.04) than translocation across the air-blood-barrier (integral fraction 0.15 ± 0.01). A high NP fraction remains in the alveoli (0.44 ± 0.05 after 28d), half of these on the alveolar epithelium and half in interstitial spaces. There is clearance from both retention sites at fractional rates (0.02–0.03 d − 1 ) by LT-MC. Prior to LT-MC, [ 48 V]TiO 2 -NP are re-entrained to the epithelium as reported earlier for 20 nm inhaled gold-NP (AuNP) and iridium-NP (IrNP).    Conclusion  Comparing the 28-day biokinetics patterns of three different inhaled NP materials TiO 2 -NP, AuNP and IrNP, the long-term kinetics of interstitial relocation and subsequent re-entrainment onto the lung-epithelium is similar for AuNP and Ir-NP but slower than for TiO 2 -NP. We discuss mechanisms and pathways of NP relocation and re-entrainment versus translocation. Additionally, after 28 days the integral translocated fractions of TiO 2 -NP and IrNP across the air-blood-barrier (ABB) are similar and become 0.15 while the translocated AuNP fraction is only 0.04. While NP dissolution proved negligible, translocated TiO 2 -NP and IrNP are predominantly excreted in urine (~ 0.1) while the urinary AuNP excretion amounts to a fraction of only 0.01. Urinary AuNP excretion is below 0.0001 during the first week but rises tenfold thereafter suggesting delayed disagglomeration. Of note, all three NP dissolve minimally, since no ionic radio-label release was detectable. These biokinetics data of inhaled, same-sized NP suggest significant time-dependent differences of the ABB translocation and subsequent fate in the organism.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12989-019-0303-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

particle and fibre toxicology

Quantitative biokinetics over a 28 day period of freshly generated, pristine, 20 nm titanium dioxide nanoparticle aerosols in healthy adult rats after a single two-hour inhalation exposure