2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Acute lung response to amosite asbestos: a morphological study
This was an animal experiment in guinea pigs. It examined the lung's reaction during the week after amosite asbestos was placed in the windpipe. Exposed animals received 17.5 mg of ground commercial-grade amosite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Comparative pulmonary responses to inhaled inorganic fibers with asbestos and fiberglass
…rats and hamsters but not in guinea pigs. Fine fiberglass particles were not fibrogenic. Rats revealed more fibrogenic pulmonary reactions than guinea pigs or hamsters. A few pulmonary tumors developed in animals exposed to asbestos, Fybex…