124 results for “Reaction Department”, page 5 of 7
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Lung cell reactions in guinea pigs after inhalation of asbestos (amosite)
…blood vessels and in connection with the bronchioles. The data suggest that amosite at low doses ultimately causes fibrosis with a reaction pattern different from that seen in silicosis. The inflammation and fibrosis seems to develop…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos-induced endothelial cell activation and injury. Demonstration of fiber phagocytosis and oxidant-dependent toxicity
…iron present within amosite asbestos fibers by deferoxamine produced a 33% reduction in asbestos cytotoxicity, suggesting a potential role for hydroxyl radical-mediated injury via the iron-catalyzed Haber-Weiss reaction.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Selective exposure and analysis of the sheep tracheal lobe as a model for toxicological studies of respirable particles
…at Day 1) and only macrophages after; lung histology documented an early macrophagic alveolitis which decreased to less than 10% of the initial inflammatory reaction at Day 60, without other distortion of the lung and airway…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · March 5, 1986 · in the opinion
Herber v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…concern. However, based upon the reaction of the Supreme Court of New Jersey when confronted with similar arguments, we do not believe that this concern would deter that Court from embracing the view here expressed. See…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · June 1, 1989 · in the opinion
Carey Canada Inc. v. California Union Ins. Co. (1989)
…she intended to exclude Jim Walter's asbestos exposure. The policy thus written reflects National Union's initial reaction to decline renewal because of the asbestos exposure. It also reflects the fact that Pinkstaff at that…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · May 16, 1985 · in the opinion
Sheppard v. AC & S. Co. (1985)
…in lung or other tissue. The reaction consists of the body "walling off" the foreign matter with fibrous cells such that it eventually produces scar-like tissue which builds up over many years. Forty-Eight Insulations…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · July 31, 1986 · in the opinion
Fischer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…notion that certain activities that create danger must, regardless of their reasonableness, "pay \[their\] own way in the event \[they\] actually cause\[\] damage\[\] to others." Berg v. Reaction Motors Div., 37 N.J. 396, 410 (1962)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · January 30, 1981 · in the opinion
Keene Corp. v. Insurance Co. of No. America (1981)
…the macrophages die, releasing proteolytic enzymes which further damage the lung. The end result of this tissue injury and reaction to the asbestos fibers is the formation of collagen and scar tissue, which is termed fibrosis. \…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · July 31, 1985 · in the opinion
Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec v. Am. Home Assur. Co. (1985)
…fibers, once inhaled, remain in place in the lung, causing a tissue reaction that is slowly progressive and apparently irreversible. Even if no additional asbestos fibers are inhaled, tissue changes may continue undetected for decades. By…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii · December 9, 1986 · in the opinion
In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases (1986)
…defendants argument is that comment j applies to products that cause allergic reactions.\[4\] Comment j [\1459] applies to common products, such as strawberries, eggs, and possibly cosmetics, that are otherwise safe yet cause allergic reactions…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · January 27, 1984 · in the opinion
Doe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
…Perhaps, even more pertinent is the reaction of the trial courts. In dealing with the precise dilemma faced by appellant herein, the Honorable Lois Forer of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia has stated: The…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 1, 1981 · in the opinion
Fusco v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1981)
…972 (5th Cir. 1975) (products liability case time-barred because plaintiff brought suit five years after she had been informed that her physical ailments probably resulted from an adverse reaction to the defendant's product). [\1184…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 15, 1985 · in the opinion
Dartez v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
…to bar the proof for purposes of establishing mental anguish. Dartez's own testimony regarding his emotional reaction to the realization of the risks he now faces and Comstock's testimony as to what he told…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 8, 1981 · in the opinion
Porter v. American Optical Corp. (1981)
…Rather, the disease is a culmination of body reaction to the particles inhaled during years of exposure. The disease is slow in nature and may require from ten to twenty years from onset to fully manifest…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 21, 1985 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
…and evokes the strongest of emotions. This prejudice must be coupled with the lack of effectiveness of any limiting instruction to eliminate the emotional reaction from the minds of the jury. Looking just at the first…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · September 22, 1987 · in the opinion
In re Asbestos Litigation (1987)
…J., dissenting). Whatever may have been the reaction of the courts in earlier times, we are persuaded that the district court properly considered the common law of New Jersey to be within the scope of the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 29, 1989 · in the opinion
Fusaro v. Porter-Hayden Co. (1989)
…initial exposure, is characterized by diffuse, interstitial fibrotic pulmonary reaction. The effects of asbestosis are generally cumulative in that the continued exposure to asbestos dust increases both the risk and severity of the disease. The lungs…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · September 29, 1981 · in the opinion
Bunker v. National Gypsum Co. (1981)
…it is progressive and apparently irreversible. As Dr. Selikoff characterizes the medical reaction. "Thus a workman who has been continually exposed to asbestos for, let us say, twenty-five years carries within him a composite biological…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 9, 1981 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1981)
…because of the internal reaction to asbestos fibers lodged in the lungs. An uncontradicted affidavit on file prepared by Dr. Nathan Grossman, an expert retained by the plaintiffs, establishes that the reaction of persons exposed to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio · July 18, 1984 · in the opinion
Laster v. Celotex Corp. (1984)
…ed., 3d ed. 1984) (asbestos "dust particles must be less than 100 micra in size" to be inhaled); Califano, Appendix to Asbestos Law: Victim's Rights and Industry Reaction, 330 Annals N.Y. Acad.Sci. 266…