3 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Iron associated with asbestos bodies is responsible for the formation of single strand breaks in phi X174 RFI DNA
…iron was responsible. Amosite fibres (5000 fibres/reaction), with a similar length distribution to that of the asbestos bodies, did not catalyse detectable amounts of single strand breaks in DNA under identical reaction conditions. The results…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Efflux of reduced glutathione after exposure of human lung epithelial cells to crocidolite asbestos
…in the same level of intracellular GSH depletion and efflux and the same decrease in gamma-GCS activity as treatment with unmodified crocidolite, which suggests that iron-catalyzed reactions were not responsible for the GSH depletion.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Role of Iron in the Cellular Effects of Asbestos
…investigations. Asbestos catalyzes many of the same reactions that iron does, including lipid peroxidation and DNA damage. At physiological pH, mobilization of iron from the fibers by a low-molecular-weight chelator greatly enhances these reactions…