2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: a review of fiber size toxicity
…per milliliter. Reviewed experiments found short fibers less active than long ones, though at high doses they could cause inflammation, lung fibrosis and pleural reactions. Reviewed human studies linked short, thin fibers with lung cancer, but…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestosis and systemic lupus erythematosus
…as they knew, no such case had been described before. They suggested it could be a particular expression of immune reactions reported in many asbestos workers, possibly analogous to Caplan-Collinet syndrome (silicosis with rheumatoid arthritis).