3 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Pathologic changes in the small airways of the guinea pig after amosite asbestos exposure
… where these fibers penetrated the airway walls, an interstitial inflammatory and fibrotic reaction (asbestosis) occurred. It is concluded that 1) amosite asbestos produces diffuse abnormalities throughout the noncartilagenous airways and possibly the cartilagenous airways as well…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Small-airway lesions in patients exposed to nonasbestos mineral dusts
…which they call mineral dust airways disease, is a nonspecific reaction of the small airways to inorganic particulates. The presence of such changes casts considerable doubt on the theory that small-airway abnormalities in asbestos workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Immunohistochemical staining for vimentin and keratin in malignant mesothelioma
…were negative. In the mesotheliomas that did stain, both epithelial and spindled elements gave a positive reaction. Three alcohol-fixed lung cancers and two blocks of alcohol-fixed pleura failed to stain for vimentin. By contrast…