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Quantitative relationship of fecal asbestos to asbestos exposure

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 1976
A method is descirbed for isolating chrysotile fibers from feces and counting them with an electron microscope. The detection limit was 150,000 fibers per gram feces; average recovery was 85.5%. When the method was used to check the asbestos in feces of people subjected to industrial exposure vs. controls, the means were significantly different (p less
H M, Cunningham, R D, Pontefract, R C, O'Brien   +2 more
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Type of Asbestos and Respiratory Cancer in the Asbestos Industry

Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, 1973
Differences in the physical properties and chemical composition of the various types of asbestos indicate that there should be differences in their carcinogenic potentials. This study of the mortality experience of 1,348 retirees from the asbestos industry shows that, after adjustment for cumulative dust exposure, men exposed only to chrysotile ...
P E, Enterline, V, Henderson
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Asbestos

JAMA, 1984
Readers of the medical literature doubtless find the asbestos-associated diseases a complex topic. The two reports on this subject in a recent issue ofThe Journaldoubtless contribute to the confusion expressed by many physicians. In the first, Dodson et al 1 record the results of assays of pulmonary tissue from three quite different but relatively ...
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Asbestos isolation

2009
The paper presents the solutions adopted for crossing an asbestos bearing rock mass during the excavation of a tunnel in Alpine region in ...
ALESSIO C, KALAMARAS G, PELIZZA, Sebastiano, PEILA, Daniele, TESTA C, CARLUCCI P. L.   +5 more
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Asbestos Pollution

Science, 1977
A N, Rohl, A M, Langer, I J, Selikoff
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Asbestos hemolysis

Environmental Research, 1970
R J, Schnitzer, F L, Pundsack
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Asbestos update

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2006
Linda, Reinstein, Laurie, Kazan-Allen
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Asbestos ☆

2005
H. Janik, M. Wrona
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DETECTION OF ASBESTOS IN ASBESTOS BODIES

The Lancet, 1968
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Asbestos Removal

Science, 1990
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