Assessment of asbestos exposure in Kyrgyzstan through analysis of raw and processed materials, air samples and human lung tissue [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAsbestos still represents a major public health problem on a global scale. In Central Asia chrysotile is still mined and used, claiming that it is safer with respect to amphibole asbestos within certain concentrations.
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Amphibole asbestos as an environmental trigger for systemic autoimmune diseases [PDF]
Autoimmunity ReviewsA growing body of evidence supports an association between systemic autoimmune disease and exposure to amphibole asbestos, a form of asbestos typically with straight, stiff, needle-like fibers that are easily inhaled. While the bulk of this evidence comes from the population exposed occupationally and environmentally to Libby Amphibole (LA) due to the ...
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Molecular engineering of a fluorescent bioprobe for sensitive and selective detection of amphibole asbestos. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Fluorescence microscopy-based affinity assay could enable highly sensitive and selective detection of airborne asbestos, an inorganic environmental pollutant that can cause mesothelioma and lung cancer.
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Surface and bulk modifications of amphibole asbestos in mimicked gamble's solution at acidic PH [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 This study aimed at investigating the surface modifications occurring on amphibole asbestos (crocidolite and tremolite) during leaching in a mimicked Gamble’s solution at pH of 4.5 and T = 37 °C, from 1 h up to 720 h.
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Diagnostic limitations of lung fiber counts in asbestos-related diseases [PDF]
The Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity, 2023 # Background Lung dust fibre analyses have been used by some pathologists to estimate past asbestos exposure in the workplace and its related health risks.
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Crystal structure determination of a lifelong biopersistent asbestos fibre using single-crystal synchrotron X-ray micro-diffraction [PDF]
IUCrJ, 2021 The six natural silicates known as asbestos may induce fatal lung diseases via inhalation, with a latency period of decades. The five amphibole asbestos species are assumed to be biopersistent in the lungs, and for this reason they are considered much ...
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Modelling the Fenton reaction of amphibole asbestos [PDF]
, 2022 In this work a sample of UICC crocidolite and a sample of fibrous tremolite were leached up to 1 week both in a simplified Gamble’s solution at acidic pH and in a phosphate buffered medium at neutral pH, in presence of H2O2.
Jasmine Rita Petriglieri +11 more
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Application of artificial intelligence in the analysis of asbestos fibers [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthAutomated asbestos fiber detection and identification has been the goal of asbestos microscopists for decades. The advent of inexpensive memory, fast digital processing, machine learning, and microscope automation provide the enabling platform for ...
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Surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos. A comparison between crocidolite and tremolite [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Among asbestos minerals, fibrous riebeckite (crocidolite) and tremolite share the amphibole structure but largely differ in terms of their iron content and oxidation state. In asbestos toxicology, iron-generated free radicals are largely held as one of
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Evaluation of the genotoxic and transformation potential induced by asbestos compared to cleavage fragments [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe World Health Organization has confirmed that asbestos fibres are carcinogenic, claiming that asbestos-related diseases should be eradicated worldwide.
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