Asbestos Exposure
Search for biomarkers of asbestos exposure and asbestos-induced cancers in investigations of the immunological effects of asbestos
... detect asbestos exposure and/or the occurrence of MM, a standardized method must be employed regarding how venous-drawn peripheral blood is divided, for example, into plasma and lymphocytes (or into CD4+, ...
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Diagnostic value of microRNAs in asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma: systematic review and qualitative meta-analysis
... Asbestos exposure entails inhalation of mineral fibers and their accumulation in the lungs, where they cause a variety of adverse effects that include production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), chromosome ...
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A 26-Year-Old Male with Mesothelioma Due to Asbestos Exposure
... by exposure to asbestos. A long exposure can cause mesothelioma and so can short ones, as each exposure is ...to asbestos during his primary school years from the age of 6 to ...to ...
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Considering Duty in Take-Home Asbestos Exposure Cases
... Although this Note advocates for a judicial test tailored to resolve take- home asbestos exposure cases, that test is more a necessity than the ideal outcome. Ideally, each state legislature would create a ...
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Cumulative asbestos exposure and mortality from asbestos related diseases in a pooled analysis of 21 asbestos cement cohorts in Italy
... airborne asbestos fibres, for each plant and year of ...of exposure, judicial examinations, and reports collected from workers ...with asbestos exposure and the range of minimum and maximum ...
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Pathways affected by asbestos exposure in normal and tumour tissue of lung cancer patients
... Among the down-regulated pathways, biological proc- esses and molecular functions related to protein ubiquiti- nation, a versatile process regulating various key cellular events such as DNA repair, cell cycle, and ...
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Past and current asbestos exposure and future mesothelioma risks in Britain: The Inhaled Particles Study (TIPS).
... environmental asbestos exposure is now 1 f/mg and remains at that level, there will be a continuing lifetime mesothelioma risk of the order of 1 in 10 000, aver- aged across the whole ...ably ...
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Association between mesothelioma and non-occupational asbestos exposure: systematic review and meta-analysis
... assess asbestos exposure, with varying levels of com- plexity ranging from a simple distance measure to a score that based on both probability and intensity of ...general, exposure assessment will ...
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Evaluation of Asbestos Exposure Associated with Research Laboratories
... since asbestos was de- tected in some of the air samples, it is important to place this exposure in con- ...linked asbestos to asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma is derived from environments ...
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Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: a review of fiber size toxicity
... of asbestos fibers are dependent on several fiber parameters including fiber ...long asbestos fibers (LAF) (Length: L ≥ 5 μ m, Diameter: D < 3 μ m and L/D ratio > ...short asbestos fibers (SAF) ...
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Asbestos Exposure in Schools
... Asbestos source remains and must be removed eventu- ally; fibers continue to be released behind enclosure (and during construction of enclosure); special oper- ations program is required[r] ...
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Retrospective exposure assessment to airborne asbestos among power industry workers
... individual asbestos exposure in a standard- ized ...airborne asbestos fibre concentrations at defined workplaces, stratified by typical occupational tasks and ...cumulative asbestos ...
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Mortality among workers exposed to asbestos at the shipyard of Genoa, Italy: a 55 years follow-up
... by exposure to asbestos, with an aetiological fraction ≥80% ...among asbestos miners and workers, insulation and shipyard workers, in people living near asbestos factories, mines and ...
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Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study
... the asbestos exposure does not vary with time for each subject when the prevalence was ...as asbestos is now banned, this does not appear to be a major ...first exposure minus minimum ...
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Asbestos modulates thioredoxin-thioredoxin interacting protein interaction to regulate inflammasome activation
... crocidolite asbestos fibers to generate ROS intra- and extracellularly, we hypothesized that crocidolite asbestos-induced ROS generation will oxidize Trx1 causing its dissociation from ...crocidolite ...
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Pleural plaques related to "take-home" exposure to asbestos: An international case series
... of asbestos, such as asbestos cement plants (Marconi et al 1989), also represents a source of asbestos ...nonoccupational exposure include asbestos present in building materials and ...
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Supplementary Prognostic Variables for Pleural Mesothelioma A Report from the IASLC Staging Committee
... IASLC Mesothelioma Registry supplementary prognostic analyses included the use of chemotherapy at any time (adju- vant therapy), smoking history, history of asbestos exposure, history of weight loss, ...
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Antemortem diagnosis of asbestosis by screening chest radiograph correlated with postmortem histologic features of asbestosis: a study of 273 cases
... and asbestos exposure showed that although 100% of the patients had histologic evidence of parenchymal fibrosis, 18% had no radiographic evidence of parenchy- mal fibrosis, and 10% had radiographic evidence ...
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Identification of Malignant Mesothelioma Risk Factors through Association Rule Mining
... that asbestos exposure is a major cause of malignant mesothelioma [23, 24] but various studies negated this claim that there is no relation between malignant mesothelioma and asbestos exposure ...
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Evaluation of Asbestos-Related Pulmonary Diseases in Lining Workers and Makers of Isfahan
... multiple asbestos-related pulmonary complications such as pulmonary fibrosis (small irregular opacities), pulmonary plaques (pleural lesion), and peribronchial thickening were ...of asbestos fibers present ...
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