The role of inflammation in silicosis
Frontiers in PharmacologySilicosis is a chronic illness marked by diffuse fibrosis in lung tissue resulting from continuous exposure to SiO2-rich dust in the workplace. The onset and progression of silicosis is a complicated and poorly understood pathological process involving ...
Tong-Tong Liu +4 more
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 133-151., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
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Determining Thresholds for Computer-Aided Detection for Silicosis-An Analytic Approach. [PDF]
Am J Ind MedABSTRACT Background Computer‐aided detection (CAD) is emerging as an adjunct to the use of the chest X‐ray (CXR) in screening for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). CAD for silicosis, a fibrotic lung disease due to silica dust and a strong risk factor for TB, is at an earlier stage of development and, unlike TB, depends on expert human reading for validation.
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Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra, 2005 Silicosis, which acquired great significance during the period of increase in mining and construction, continues to be a pathology with a high morbidity and mortality within pneumoconiosis. Exposure to silica produces pathological, clinical and radiological alterations that together with compatible personal antecedents suggests its diagnosis in a ...
Abú- Shams, K. +2 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Context: Silicosis is a progressive, irreversible and incurable respiratory morbidity and often becomes a cause for pre-mature mortality among occupationally silica dust-exposed workers in India and similar countries.
Subroto S Nandi +2 more
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Review on role of NLRP3 inflammasome in pathogenesis of silicosis
环境与职业医学, 2022 Silicosis is one of the most common forms of pneumoconiosis globally. Workers who engage in mining, construction, ceramics, and many other industries have a high risk of developing silicosis. Chronic and repeated inhalation of free silica (SiO2) dust (
Zhenzhen FAN +6 more
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Trends in silicosis prevalence and the healthy worker effect among gold miners in South Africa: a prevalence study with follow up of employment status. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry silicosis epidemic is essential to current initiatives to control both silicosis and tuberculosis in ...
Churchyard, Gavin +5 more
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Costs of delivering human papillomavirus vaccination to schoolgirls in Mwanza Region, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of female cancer-related deaths in Tanzania. Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) offers a new opportunity to control this disease.
Quentin, Wilm +9 more
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The politics of silicosis in interwar Spain : republican and francoist approaches to occupational health [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores the emergence and recognition of silicosis as an occupational disease in interwar Spain. Following International Labour Office guidelines, growing international concerns and local medical evidence, Republican administrators provided
Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo
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