3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Genotoxic mechanisms of asbestos fibers: role of extranuclear targets
…fibers are carcinogenic to both humans and experimental animals. The continued discoveries of exposure routes whereby the general public is exposed to asbestos suggest a long-term, low-dose exposure for a large number of people…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Modulating factors in the expression of radiation-induced oncogenic transformation
…scored, to those in human cells growing in nude mice where tumor invasiveness is scored. In general, systems that are most quantitative are also the least relevant in terms of human carcinogenesis and human risk estimation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Induction of heme oxygenase in mammalian cells by mineral fibers: distinctive effect of reactive oxygen species
…and erionites also induced HO synthesis with varying degree of efficiency. In general, chrysotile and crocidolite were more efficient inducers of HO than tremolite and erionite when compared at fiber doses that resulted in approximately 50…