28 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 8, 1982 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…June 1948 until June 1980). During those years he worked in various departments of Johns-Manville including the transite pipe plant where he was exposed to asbestos fibers and silica, the asbestos shingle plant where he…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
…and a study to be published by the Labor Department estimates that at least 8,500 workers — perhaps as many as 10,000 — will die each year until the end of this century from asbestos-related…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Fiber localization and its relationship to lung reaction in rats after chronic inhalation of chrysotile asbestos
…with histologic changes indicating marked epithelial injury. Increased amounts of fibers are also localized in the lung interstitium with continued exposure to asbestos and are associated with a progressive interstitial fibrotic reaction. Following cessation of exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Gallium scanning in differentiating malignant from benign asbestos-related pleural disease
…no history of exposure. Scans were also positive in 3 of the 16 patients with benign disease (19%), and tissue removed from these three showed a strong inflammatory reaction. Among asbestos-exposed patients, the scan's…
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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 · 1982
A study of macrophage-mediated initiation of fibrosis by asbestos and silica using a diffusion chamber technique
…the chamber) from the target tissue. Fibrous reactions surrounding the chambers were quantitated by macroscopic and histological scoring, and by measurement of 14C glycine incorporated at the reaction site. Using this model the fibrogenicity of Rhodesian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to notification and screening
…In this study, we assessed reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to a letter notifying them of their risk for asbestos-related illnesses and the availability of a medical screening program. Two hundred forty-seven workers who…
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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 · 1983
A murine model of asbestosis
…an initial macrophage reaction was found to progress to "asbestos body" formation and diffuse focal interstitial fibrosis within 1 year of a chronic exposure period. This reaction was most intense in areas adjacent to respiratory bronchioles…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Railroad workers with pleural plaques: II. Small airway dysfunction among asbestos-exposed workers
…groups the VTG:TLC ratio was elevated compared with controls. Increased VTG is a sign of small airways dysfunction. In asbestos-exposed subjects, it might be caused by an early peribronchial reaction to inhaled asbestos fibers.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Diminished suppressor cell function in patients with asbestosis
…patients. Skin reaction to dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) was not depressed, although lymphocytes of patients giving positive skin test reactions demonstrated a significantly lower (P less than 0.001) proliferative response to dinitrobenzene sulphonic acid (DNBSO3) in vitro…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Ventilatory failure due to asbestos pleurisy
…because of extension of the pleural fibrosis into the lung. Two of these patients had pleural uptake of 67-gallium citrate attributable to the inflammatory reaction. With the increasing duration since onset of exposure in the…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 29, 1988 · in the opinion
Pecorino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…pleaded that the Defendants' breach of these various duties (as well as the fact that these products precipitated great harm which was not a consequence of any unique or unforeseeable reaction of the user) caused Mr…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 3, 1982 · in the opinion
Staiano v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1982)
…24 Wayne L.Rev. 1641 (1978) (British reaction to first breath rule announced in Cartledge). Other jurisdictions have viewed subjecting the plaintiff to exposure as a continuing tort and have adopted what may be called the…