19 results for “Reaction Department”
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991 · in the opinion
Wehmeier v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
…On redirect, Abrams stated that, assuming (1) Cochran worked with amosite asbestos in the pipe department at the plant; and (2) Manville delivered 325 tons of chrysotile asbestos to the plant, Cochran could have inhaled some…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995 · in the opinion
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
…Vorwald to Hazard suggesting that Kaylo produced an asbestosis-like reaction in the lungs and that "every precaution should be taken to minimize exposure of industrial employees." (9) The final confidential January 1952 project report concluding…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · November 18, 1993 · in the opinion
Srite v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1993)
…in physical pain. Mr. Ben had been employed at the Petrotex Refinery in the labor department as an insulator. He worked on a daily basis as a sandblaster throughout his tenure at Petrotex, from 1958 until…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 7, 1992 · in the opinion
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Armstrong (1992)
…may be detectable only on a microscopic or subclinical level. As a pathologist I define \disease' as the process of reaction and/or repair to injury. In the discussion which follows of the diseases of asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Contributions of experimental asbestosis in sheep to the understanding of asbestosis
…to 5 years. The authors described four tissue reactions to asbestos: no-retention, low-retention, high-retention and intermediate. They suggested that the intermediate reaction might explain non-progressive cases of minimal asbestosis. Exposure dose and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Biphasic lung diffusing capacity: detection of early asbestos induced changes in lung function
…choice in subjects with an isolated decrease in DLCO. Exposure to asbestos can be associated not only with a reduction in DLCO, but also with a temporary increase in DLCO caused by a subclinical inflammatory reaction.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Radiological changes in asbestos cement workers
…exposure variables. Progression was found long after the end of exposure. The findings on costophrenic angle obliterations, supposed to be sequelae of benign pleural effusions, were consistent with an immediate reaction triggered by intense asbestos exposure.
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · March 20, 1990 · in the opinion
Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…test. I imagine you had some reaction to what he said to you. THE WITNESS: He just said he seen \[sic\] some spots on the X-ray. THE COURT: Did you react to that or no…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · November 12, 1990 · in the opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1990)
…Asbestos fibers, once inhaled, remain in place in the lung, causing a tissue reaction that is slowly progressive and irreversible. Typically, the disease does not manifest itself until years after initial exposure to asbestos fibers. The…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 17, 1998 · in the opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1998)
…the judge. When the proceedings resumed, the district court reprimanded plaintiffs' counsel. Pittsburgh Corning mentions adverse audience reaction on a couple of occasions, but the district court properly handled those matters. Neither of these occurrences, or…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990 · in the opinion
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
…respiratory movements, the asbestos fibers work into the tissues outside the bronchia and into the peribronchial tissues where the fibers seem to set up an inflammatory or fibrotic reaction which results in scar tissue formation. According…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 7, 1998 · in the opinion
ACandS v. Abate (1998)
…they may pierce through the smallest airways into the pleura. The fibers that reach the pleura cause a localized reaction which results in a deposit of scar tissue. When the scarring of the pleura is localized…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 11, 1994 · in the opinion
DiDio v. Philadelphia Asbestos Corp. (1994)
…565a-566a, 571a-575a. James Didio testified that he suffers great anxiety as a result of his diagnosis and described his initial reaction to the diagnosis of his conditions as devastation. N.T. 9/20/91…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Pathogenesis of mesothelial reactions to asbestos fibers. Monocyte recruitment and macrophage activation
Exposure to asbestos fibers leads to a variety of mesothelial reactions: pleural effusions, fibrotic pleural plaques, and malignant mesotheliomas. An animal model was developed to reproduce these lesions in C57B1/6 mice using weekly intraperitoneal injections…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
The role of free radicals in asbestos-induced diseases
…this reactive radical. However, asbestos also appears to catalyze electron transfer reactions that do not require iron. Iron chelators either inhibit or augment asbestos-catalyzed generation of the hydroxyl radical and/or pathological changes, depending on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
The human evidence: parenchymal and pleural changes
Asbestos inhalation can cause fibrotic reactions both in the lung parenchyma and in the pleura. The incidence and relative proportions of these lesions in any cohort will be dependent on: (1) the time factor: both asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiological features of asbestos-related visceral pleural changes
…Generally, visceral pleural reactions follow the mesothelial cells response to various injurious substances, including asbestos, and even saline. The changes are nonspecific. They may occur subsequent to pleural reactions associated with many conditions, which include tuberculosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos and other toxins
…most significant factors in behavioral stability and coping. The author concluded that telling exposed workers the truth about their health appeared to reinforce their usual patterns of behavior rather than create new or non-adaptive reactions.
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · September 10, 1990 · in the opinion
Potts v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…drug); Martinez-Ferrer v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc., 105 Cal. App.3d 316, 164 Cal. Rptr. 591 (1980) (acute allergic reactions and cataracts caused by drug); cf. Anderson v. Sybron Corp., 165 Ga. App. 566, 567-568…