86 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 5
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · May 25, 1972 · in the opinion
Bambrick v. Asten Hill Mfg. Co. et al. (1972)
…nature. What Dr. Fite is describing are asbestos bodies and these are characteristic tissue reaction to the presence of asbestos fibers." (Emphasis added) (R. 41a-42a) It is true as stated by the majority that Dr…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 8, 1982 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…June 1948 until June 1980). During those years he worked in various departments of Johns-Manville including the transite pipe plant where he was exposed to asbestos fibers and silica, the asbestos shingle plant where he…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
…and a study to be published by the Labor Department estimates that at least 8,500 workers — perhaps as many as 10,000 — will die each year until the end of this century from asbestos-related…
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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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Disease
What is asbestosis
…and is injured or destroyed in the attempt, releasing the inflammatory signals that keep the cycle of damage going (right). That failed-clearance reaction, called frustrated phagocytosis, is a central reason long amphibole fibers are the…
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Court case · Montana Workers' Comp. Court · May 5, 2014 · in the opinion
Baeth v. Liberty NW Ins. Corp. (2014)
…usually ten years, from the time of exposure to the time of evaluation; and (3) evidence of structural changes caused by a reaction to the asbestos fibers.\[40\] ¶ 31 Dr. Black further explained that getting an…
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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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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Fiber localization and its relationship to lung reaction in rats after chronic inhalation of chrysotile asbestos
…with histologic changes indicating marked epithelial injury. Increased amounts of fibers are also localized in the lung interstitium with continued exposure to asbestos and are associated with a progressive interstitial fibrotic reaction. Following cessation of exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Gallium scanning in differentiating malignant from benign asbestos-related pleural disease
…no history of exposure. Scans were also positive in 3 of the 16 patients with benign disease (19%), and tissue removed from these three showed a strong inflammatory reaction. Among asbestos-exposed patients, the scan's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Immune adherence reactivity of rat alveolar macrophages following inhalation of crocidolite asbestos
…a statistically significant difference. Sheep red cells, which cannot take part in this reaction, stuck far less to macrophages from exposed rats. Treating the cells with antiserum against the complement component C3 reduced adherence to 4…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Pathologic changes in the small airways of the guinea pig after amosite asbestos exposure
… where these fibers penetrated the airway walls, an interstitial inflammatory and fibrotic reaction (asbestosis) occurred. It is concluded that 1) amosite asbestos produces diffuse abnormalities throughout the noncartilagenous airways and possibly the cartilagenous airways as well…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Asbestos bodies: clues to the mechanism of asbestos toxicity?
…lung, ascorbate was oxidized to oxalate in the presence of H2O2, a reaction inhibited by the iron chelator deferoxamine. The author called this a novel mechanism that may contribute to the pathogenicity of asbestos fibers. Oxidation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Early inflammatory response to asbestos exposure in rat and hamster lungs: role of inducible nitric oxide synthase
…inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) plays a role in the development of asbestos-related pulmonary disorders. The pulmonary reactions of rats and hamsters upon exposure to asbestos fibers are well known to be disparate. In addition…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
A study of macrophage-mediated initiation of fibrosis by asbestos and silica using a diffusion chamber technique
…the chamber) from the target tissue. Fibrous reactions surrounding the chambers were quantitated by macroscopic and histological scoring, and by measurement of 14C glycine incorporated at the reaction site. Using this model the fibrogenicity of Rhodesian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Re: Controlled use of asbestos
…which were not published, reported fibrotic lesions or lung damage; in 1966 the Coalinga sample produced the most severe reaction. The authors stated that UCC consultants misrepresented Pinkerton's data. Their review of King City mine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestos and neoplasia: diffuse mesothelial tumors. Criteria for diagnosis of diffuse mesothelial tumors
…periodic acid-Schiff reaction was nearly always negative. A colleague found hyaluronidase-removable acid mucopolysaccharide in all 17 mesotheliomas examined and in none of 20 adenocarcinomas. However, the author had seen an identical reaction in pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to notification and screening
…In this study, we assessed reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to a letter notifying them of their risk for asbestos-related illnesses and the availability of a medical screening program. Two hundred forty-seven workers who…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Small-airway lesions in patients exposed to nonasbestos mineral dusts
…which they call mineral dust airways disease, is a nonspecific reaction of the small airways to inorganic particulates. The presence of such changes casts considerable doubt on the theory that small-airway abnormalities in asbestos workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
A murine model of asbestosis
…an initial macrophage reaction was found to progress to "asbestos body" formation and diffuse focal interstitial fibrosis within 1 year of a chronic exposure period. This reaction was most intense in areas adjacent to respiratory bronchioles…