1,074 results for “Reaction Department”, page 18 of 54
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Antiradical and chelating effects in flavonoid protection against silica-induced cell injury
Quercetin, dihydroquercetin, and rutin are capable of scavenging superoxide anion (rate constants of the reaction with superoxide at pH 10 were 1.7 x 10(5), 1.5 x 10(5), and 0.5 x 10…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Local inflammatory response produced by solutions sterilized with asbestos type filters
…due to the presence of asbestos fibers in the injected filtrate. Further studies indicated that the eosinophilia was not merely the reaction to a non-specific irritating substance. Talc produced a response identical to the asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Exogenous particles in lymph nodes in patients with shrinking pleuritis with atelectasis
…pleuritis with atelectasis is a disease in which a compression atelectasis of the lung is caused by shrinking of the inflamed visceral pleura. This reaction has been attributed to asbestos. By means of scanning electron microscopy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Distinct keratin patterns demonstrated by immunoperoxidase staining of adenocarcinomas, carcinoids, and mesotheliomas using polyclonal and monoclonal anti-keratin antibodies
…10 adenocarcinomas, 10 carcinoids, and 4 mesotheliomas by an immunoperoxidase reaction using 3 polyclonal and 3 monoclonal antibodies to keratin. When color development in diaminobenzidine (DAB) was allowed to proceed for less than 2 minutes, distinct…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mesothelial proliferation due to asbestos and man-made fibres. Experimental studies on rat omentum
…in rats has proven to be an appropriate method controlling fibrogenicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos fibres and other fibrous dusts. We analyzed the reaction patterns of mesothelial cover layer to different natural mineral fibres (crocidolite, chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Diagnostic usefulness of p16/CDKN2A FISH in distinguishing between sarcomatoid mesothelioma and fibrous pleuritis
…examination is inconclusive. We studied the usefulness of deletion of p16 with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and p16 hypermethylation with polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis and prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). We analyzed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Diagnosis and origin determination of malignant pleural effusions through the use of the breast cancer marker human mammaglobin
…be expressed in malignant pleural effusions (PEs), we investigated the relevance of hMAM reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for their diagnosis and determination of primary origin. Two hundred and twenty-eight malignant (132 male…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Aromatase inhibitor exemestane has antiproliferative effects on human mesothelioma cells
…aromatase (CYP19A1) in malignant mesothelioma (MM). We found CYP19A1 in five human MM cell lines using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and Western immunoblots and in a group of samples from patients with MM by immunohistochemistry…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Complete regression of human malignant mesothelioma xenografts following local injection of midkine promoter-driven oncolytic adenovirus
…the tumor-specific midkine (Mdk) promoter could confer transcriptional targeting to oncolytic adenoviruses for effective treatment of malignant mesothelioma. We analysed Mdk expression by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in six human mesothelioma cell lines…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Alveolar macrophage stimulation of lung fibroblast growth in asbestos-induced pulmonary fibrosis
…proliferation, and collagen deposition. To evaluate the potential involvement of alveolar macrophages in the subsequent fibrogenic reaction, the authors studied the effects of macrophages from normal and asbestos-treated rats upon lung fibroblast proliferation in vitro…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Combined use of X-ray photoelectron and Mössbauer spectroscopic techniques in the analytical characterization of iron oxidation state in amphibole asbestos
…presence, structural coordination, and oxidation state of iron at the fiber surface are potentially important for the biological effects of asbestos because iron can catalyze the Haber-Weiss reaction, generating the reactive oxygen species OH. Literature…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Absence of SV-40 large T antigen (Tag) in malignant mesothelioma effusions: an immunocytochemical study
…a function of a nuclear protein, the large T antigen (Tag). SV-40 Tag DNA sequences are detected by the polymerase chain reaction in 40-80% of malignant mesothelial proliferations. However, the role of immunohistochemistry (IHC…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Novel cationic-modified salep as an efficient flocculating agent for settling of cement slurries
…and 3-(methacryloylamino)propyl]trimethylammonium chloride (MAPTAC) onto salep using free radical polymerization initiated by ammonium persulfate (APS) to produce cationic salep [S-g-P(AM-co-MAPTAC)]. Reaction parameters (monomers/salep ratio, concentration of reactants…
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Company document · 1997
Owens Corning's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Greco v. A-Best Products (1997)
…the early 1940s (No. 25), and that in 1956 it asked Owens-Illinois about Kaylo's health effects and was told the 1955 Saranac study showed animals "could develop a mild asbestosis reaction" (Nos. 18, 25…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · March 17, 2017 · in the opinion
Phillips v. Honeywell International Inc. (2017)
…goal of installing brakes weakens the inference that Phillips reaction to a warning on the boxes of Bendix brakes would have been the same as his reaction to the warning on cigarette packaging when he started…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan · May 4, 1978 · in the opinion
Ins. Co. of No. Am. v. Forty-Eight Insulations (1978)
Asbestosis is a non-malignant disease resulting from the inhalation of asbestos fibers of a certain length over a considerable period of time causing a bodily reaction that may eventually impair the function of the lungs…
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Biologically Active Iron
…Ann Aust, and others, who showed that iron on asbestos fiber surfaces catalyzes the Fenton reaction, producing hydroxyl radicals that damage DNA and cell membranes. The term reflects the distinction between total iron content and the…
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Hydroxyl Radical
…and others showing that iron on fiber surfaces catalyzes hydroxyl radical formation through the Fenton reaction. Significance in Asbestos Context Hydroxyl radicals are central to the leading scientific explanation of how asbestos fibers cause disease at…
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Mixed-Valence Iron
…fibers, this coexistence of iron states is chemically important because it allows the fiber surface to drive reactions that generate harmful reactive oxygen species inside the body. Origin The concept comes from inorganic and mineral chemistry…
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Iron Stain (Prussian Blue)
…and count in lung tissue. It is a standard tool for confirming asbestosis and documenting asbestos exposure under the microscope. Origin The German pathologist Max Perls described the reaction in 1867, using a chemical that forms…