3 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Effect of asbestos on the metabolism of vasoactive substances in isolated perfused guinea pig lungs
…The tissue response consisted of both inflammatory reaction of terminal and respiratory bronchioles and diffuse alveolar septal infiltration with interstitial fibrosis. The reaction was characterized at six months by a progressive bronchiolitis obliterans with fibroblastic proliferation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Selective exposure and analysis of the sheep tracheal lobe as a model for toxicological studies of respirable particles
…at Day 1) and only macrophages after; lung histology documented an early macrophagic alveolitis which decreased to less than 10% of the initial inflammatory reaction at Day 60, without other distortion of the lung and airway…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Biochemical components of bronchoalveolar lavage in early experimental asbestosis of the sheep: phospholipase A2 activity, prostaglandin E2 and proteins
…significantly increased in both low and high dose groups. These changes in protein and lipid components of BAL following asbestos exposure constitute early indices of lung inflammatory reactions which may contribute to the development of asbestosis.