2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Response of mouse lung to crocidolite asbestos. 1. Minimal fibrotic reaction to short fibres
This was an animal experiment from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, on how mouse lungs respond to short crocidolite asbestos fibres. The authors separated short fibres from a standard UICC crocidolite sample. These had a mean length of 0.6…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Response of mouse lung to crocidolite asbestos. 2. Pulmonary fibrosis after long fibres
…These findings suggest that injury to bronchial and bronchiolar epithelium allows long fibres to reach the interstitium where subsequent macrophage-fibroblast interactions result in a severe fibrotic reaction that resembles the bronchiolar component of human asbestosis.