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The health effects of short fiber chrysotile and amphibole asbestos

Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2022
The potential toxic effects of short chrysotile and amphibole asbestos fibers with lengths
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Heavy Liquid Separation Method for Enhancement of Trace Asbestos Detection

Crystals
Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a widely accepted technique for detecting trace asbestos content in solid samples. However, accurately quantifying asbestos concentrations below 0.5 wt% presents significant challenges with XRD alone.
Sasithorn Chornkrathok, Przemyslaw Dera, Phuong Q. H. Nguyen, Robert T. Downs   +3 more
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Tumors that Mimic Asbestos-Related Mesothelioma: Time to Consider a Genetics-Based Tumor Registry?

Frontiers in Genetics, 2014
The diagnosis of mesothelioma is not always straightforward, despite known immunohistochemical markers and other diagnostic techniques. One reason for the difficulty is that extrapleural tumors resembling mesothelioma may have several possible ...
Brent Daniel Kerger, Robert Cary James, David eGalbraith   +2 more
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Occupational lung cancer screening: A Collegium Ramazzini statement

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 289-303, April 2024.
Steven Markowitz, Knut Ringen, John M. Dement, Kurt Straif, L. Christine Oliver, Eduardo Algranti, Dennis Nowak, Rodney Ehrlich, Melissa A. McDiarmid, Albert Miller, Collegium Ramazzini   +10 more
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Comparative Studies on the Cytotoxicity of Amphibole and Serpentine Asbestos

Environmental Health Perspectives, 1980
The chemical and physical properties of serpentine and amphibole asbestos are considered in the context of their interaction with tissue of the tracheobronchial tree and lungs. In vitro studies in cultures of several types are evaluated and work with the erythrocyte hemolysis system is reviewed.
J E, Craighead, B T, Mossman, B J, Bradley   +2 more
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Chrysotile effects on human lung cell carcinoma in culture: 3-D reconstruction and DNA quantification by image analysis

BMC Cancer, 2008
Background Chrysotile is considered less harmful to human health than other types of asbestos fibers. Its clearance from the lung is faster and, in comparison to amphibole forms of asbestos, chrysotile asbestos fail to accumulate in the lung tissue due ...
Machado-Santelli Glaucia M, Cortez Beatriz A   +1 more
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Asbestos: current issues related to cancer and to uses in developing countries Asbesto: seu emprego nos países em desenvolvimento e questões relacionadas ao câncer

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1998
Asbestos is one of the main occupational carcinogens recognized and studied in the literature. Its uses have undergone major changes in recent decades, with severe restrictions on commercial amphiboles according to different patterns: in developed ...
Eduardo Algranti
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Characterisation of chemically related asbestos amphiboles of actinolite: proposal for a specific differentiation in the diagram (Si apfu versus Mg/Mg+Fe2+)

International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering, 2018
Aggregates and rocks from quarries located in metropolitan France and New Caledonia, all likely to contain asbestiform amphiboles, were analysed by a routine laboratory (AD-LAB). Morphological observations were made using transmission electron microscopy
Misseri Maxime, Lahondere Didier
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Mechanisms of oxidative stress and alterations in gene expression by Libby six-mix in human mesothelial cells

Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2010
Background Exposures to an amphibole fiber in Libby, Montana cause increases in malignant mesothelioma (MM), a tumor of the pleural and peritoneal cavities with a poor prognosis. Affymetrix microarray/GeneSifter analysis was used to determine alterations
Hillegass Jedd M, Shukla Arti, MacPherson Maximilian B, Lathrop Sherrill A, Alexeeva Vlada, Perkins Timothy N, van der Vliet Albert, Vacek Pamela M, Gunter Mickey E, Mossman Brooke T   +9 more
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Talcose entre artesãos em pedra-sabão em uma localidade rural do Município de Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil Talc pneumoconiosis among soapstone handicraft workers in a rural area of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003
A talcose é uma pneumoconiose ainda pouco estudada em nosso meio. Sua ocorrência foi investigada no Distrito de Mata dos Palmitos, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil, entre artesãos em pedra-sabão, que trabalham em produção de base familiar, de caráter ...
Olívia Maria de Paula Alves Bezerra, Elizabeth Costa Dias, Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão, Ana Paula Scalia Carneiro   +3 more
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