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Chemical toxic exposures and chronic ocular pain
Chronic ocular pain is a common, debilitating chronic pain condition with significant morbidity and negative impact in patients’ quality of life. Several, diverse types of insults to the ocular surface can lead to acute, and under certain conditions to ...
Mateusz Graca +2 more
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Effect of allergens and irritants on levels of natural moisturizing factor and corneocyte morphology
The irritant sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) is known to cause a decrease in the stratum corneum level of natural moisturizing factor (NMF), which in itself is associated with changes in corneocyte surface topography.
S. Koppes +14 more
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Skin Features Important for the Occurrence of Contact Dermatitis in Healthcare Workers
The occurrence of skin lesions in healthcare workers is associated with a negative impact on important skin functions, including protection from mechanical injuries, sunlight, dehydration, and penetration of chemical substances or pathogenic ...
Iva Japundžić +5 more
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Background: The biological mechanisms by which cleaning products and disinfectants—an emerging risk factor—affect respiratory health remain incompletely evaluated.
M. Rava +16 more
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Irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]
Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional gastrointestinal disorder with symptoms including abdominal pain associated with a change in stool form or frequency. The condition affects between 5% and 10% of otherwise healthy individuals at any one point in time and, in most people, runs a relapsing and remitting course.
Ford, Alexander C. +3 more
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Isolated lesions of gingiva: A case series and review
Isolated lesions of gingiva arise in succession to the hyperinflammatory reactions in response to the underlying local irritants. Despite their overlapping clinical and histological features, these lesions are distinctive regarding their biological ...
D Radha Bharathi +3 more
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Pulmonary Epithelial Integrity in Children: Relationship to Ambient Ozone Exposure and Swimming Pool Attendance [PDF]
Airway irritants such as ozone are known to impair lung function and induce airway inflammation. Clara cell protein (CC16) is a small anti-inflammatory protein secreted by the nonciliated bronchiolar Clara cells.
Alfred Bernard +13 more
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Oral granuloma gravidarum: a retrospective study of 41 cases in Southern Brazil
Granuloma gravidarum (GG) is an inflammatory lesion, which develops in the oral mucosa of pregnant women in response to chronic low-grade irritants, under the influence of hormonal factors.
Juliana Andrade CARDOSO +4 more
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Irritable bowel syndrome: Is it "irritable brain" or "irritable bowel"? [PDF]
ABSTRACTIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been recognized as one of the most common and best studied disorders among the group of functional gastrointestinal disorders. It is a functional bowel disorder in which abdominal pain or discomfort is associated with defecation or a change in bowel habit.
Padhy, Susanta Kumar +3 more
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In an attempt to build the evaluation strategies to assess the human eye irritation, a reassessment of some in vitro tests is necessary, particularly concerning the non-irritants, mild and moderate irritants.
Andréa Martins da Nóbrega +4 more
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