3 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 · 1994
Iron associated with asbestos bodies is responsible for the formation of single strand breaks in phi X174 RFI DNA
…iron was responsible. Amosite fibres (5000 fibres/reaction), with a similar length distribution to that of the asbestos bodies, did not catalyse detectable amounts of single strand breaks in DNA under identical reaction conditions. The results…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Method for removing the ferruginous coating from asbestos bodies
…treatment consisted of an 8% oxalic acid bath used at various temperatures. It was determined that at 75 degrees C the reaction resulted in removal of the ferruginous coat, leaving an exposed core for further analysis…