- Topic: Chrysotile
- Journal or magazine: American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
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2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Chrysotile asbestos stimulates platelet-derived growth factor-AA production by rat lung fibroblasts in vitro: evidence for an autocrine loop
…However, message amplification using a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction allowed detection of the B-chain message. A significant dose-dependent mitogenic effect of asbestos was found by using both a cell proliferation assay and nuclear…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Asbestos fibers and interferon-gamma up-regulate nitric oxide production in rat alveolar macrophages
…in macrophage conditioned medium, was assayed by the Griess reaction. Production of NO2- by AM was significantly increased by both chrysotile (P < 0.01) and crocidolite (P < 0.05) asbestos fibers (10 micrograms/ml…