Asbestos Fibers
Live-cell imaging of macrophage phagocytosis of asbestos fibers under fluorescence microscopy
... Our first trial using fluorescently labeled asbestos enabled us to visualize the dynamic biological processes that ac- company the cellular internalization of asbestos fibers. Other types of ...
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Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: a review of fiber size toxicity
... of asbestos fibers increases with length, despite certain not- able ...of fibers (aggregation, surface reactivity, leaching ...LAF fibers in SAF samples, the ana- lytical methods for fiber ...
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Improved Method for Analysis of Airborne Asbestos Fibers Using Phase Contrast Microscopy and FTIR Spectrometry
... airborne asbestos fibers before and therefore the library of FT-IR spectrometer did not contain information for identification of any asbestos ...chrysotile asbestos, in the range of 1 to 10 ...
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The utility of electron microscopy in detecting asbestos fibers and particles in BALF in diffuse lung diseases
... The clinical impact of the mineral components of particles in the diagnosis of diffuse lung diseases is unclear. This may be because such analysis requires EM and associated analytical techniques [22]. Our re- sults show ...
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Translocation pathways for inhaled asbestos fibers
... [33]. Asbestos exposure also leads to depletion of extracel- lular superoxide dismutase thus increasing the suscepti- bility to reactive oxygen species ...an asbestos dose comparable to that in the work ...
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Determination of Airborne Concentration and Type of Asbestos Fibers in High-Traffic Areas of Zahedan City
... 16. Dodson RF, O’Sullivan M, Brooks DR, Hammar SP. Quantitative analysis of asbestos burden in women with mesothelioma. American journal of industrial medicine. 2003;43(2):188-95. 17. Kakooei H, Marioryad H. ...
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Carcinogens in Drinking Water
... Cunningham HM, Pontefract RD: Asbestos fibers in beverage, drinking water, and tissues: Their passage. through the body[r] ...
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Molecular biology of malignant mesothelioma
... to asbestos, thus establishing a clear link between asbestos exposure and MM development ...of asbestos. There are six types of asbestos: amphiboles-amosite (brown asbestos), ...
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Russian Opinion on Asbestos: All Fibers Equal
... Abstract Asbestos-related health risks have been evaluated on the basis of past experience, when occupational exposures were much higher; while the linear no-threshold (LNT) approach has usually been ...of ...
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Power Stripping of Asbestos Containing Insulation from Electrical Cable
... 1990, asbestos insulated wire and cable products have been the subject of industrial hygiene studies which sought to determine the possible levels of airborne fiber exposure associated with normal use of these ...
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Circulating microRNAs found dysregulated in ex-exposed asbestos workers and pleural mesothelioma patients as potential new biomarkers
... to asbestos fibers. The asbestos, a cancerogenic mineral of different chemical composition, was widely employed in western Countries in industrial manufactures of different ...to asbestos ...
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Cumulative asbestos exposure and mortality from asbestos related diseases in a pooled analysis of 21 asbestos cement cohorts in Italy
... of asbestos ex- posure, according to a power function of TSFE [55, 56] and did not differentiate between the anatomical location of MM [55, ...Polish asbestos workers participating in a health surveillance ...
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Transformation of the released asbestos, carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes from composite materials and the changes of their potential health impacts
... matrix. Asbestos, carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely used in com- posites with profound impacts not only on technology and economy but also on human health and ...impacts. ...
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Relationships of Lower Lung Fibrosis, Pleural Disease, and Lung Mass with Occupational, Household, Neighborhood, and Slate Roof-Dense Area Residential Asbestos Exposure
... of asbestos fibers may differ according to the source [13], previous studies have not addressed the effects of various exposure sources, including mines, factories, and ship-building facilities, on ...
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Search for biomarkers of asbestos exposure and asbestos-induced cancers in investigations of the immunological effects of asbestos
... of asbestos exposure on human T cells, a cell culture model for continuous low-dose ex- posure that simulated human exposure was established using a human polyclonal T cell line immortalized by hu- man T cell ...
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Determination and Sorting of Asbestos-Containing Material by Visual Observation
... Therefore, a visual observation experiment was conducted with five experimenters. The experimenters were in their twenties and did not have any knowledge of the determination of asbestos fiber. The authors showed ...
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HRCT in Early Diagnosis of Asbestos Related Pulmonary Disease
... to asbestos fibers, we did our best to sample the air from every place which had the possibility of asbestos ...40 fibers in 100 graticole field was considered as the minimum load of the ...
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Evaluation of Asbestos-Related Pulmonary Diseases in Lining Workers and Makers of Isfahan
... the asbestos-related complications, its dangers, and methods of ...which asbestos-related complications could be prevented is the daily consumption of fruit juices, milk, and carrot juice ...of ...
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A novel human 3D lung microtissue model for nanoparticle-induced cell-matrix alterations
... Human 3D lung microtissues were evaluated using a PCR array containing key genes and pathways associated with inflammation and cell-matrix interactions (Fig. 4, Additional file 1: Figure S3). RNA was isolated from ...
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Asbestos and erionite prime and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome that stimulates autocrine cytokine release in human mesothelial cells
... long asbestos fibers, known to be more inflammatory, carcinogenic and fibrogenic than shorter fibers in rodents (reviewed in [5,6,8]), elicited reactive oxygen species through iron-driven redox ...
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