3 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos catalyzes hydroxyl and superoxide radical generation from hydrogen peroxide
…hydroxyl radicals from a normal byproduct of tissue metabolism, hydrogen peroxide. The iron chelator desferroxamine inhibits this reaction, indicating a major role for iron in the catalytic process, and suggesting a possible mechanism by which asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
The role of free radicals in asbestos-induced diseases
…this reactive radical. However, asbestos also appears to catalyze electron transfer reactions that do not require iron. Iron chelators either inhibit or augment asbestos-catalyzed generation of the hydroxyl radical and/or pathological changes, depending on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
NHLBI workshop summary. Environmental lung diseases. Relationship between acute inflammatory responses to air pollutants and chronic lung disease
…included microdosimetry of inhaled gases and particles, the transfer of ozone and nitrogen dioxide across the air-tissue interface, oxidative reactions involving nitric oxide, early events leading to lung fibrosis, chronic injury in the proximal alveolar…