2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Reaction of mineral dusts with primary lung fibroblast cultures
This laboratory study, which also reviewed the authors' earlier work, tested nine mineral dusts on rabbit lung fibroblast cultures (collagen-making cells). Single doses of 10 to 1000 µg per culture were added on day 3. DNA and cell-layer collagen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Effects of chrysotile on a lysosomal enzyme preparation and on the hydrolytic enzyme activity of cultured alveolar macrophages
…inhibit or enhance lysosomal enzyme activity at either pH but may preferentially absorb specific enzymes and that the binding reaction between any given enzyme and mineral can be dependent on the presence of other organic compounds…