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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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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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Social determinants of an occupational lung disease: Workers’ narratives on silicosis
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023 Silicosis is a preventable occupational lung disease caused by inhaled silica dust. Solutions to prevent silicosis ranging from engineering controls to respirator use have been validated for nearly a century, but many workers are still at-risk of this ...
Yanni Liang +3 more
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Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 Silicosis is a serious silica-induced respiratory disease for which there is currently no effective treatment. Irreversible pulmonary fibrosis caused by persistent inflammation is the main feature of silicosis.
Yu Tian +8 more
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Animal models of silicosis: fishing for new therapeutic targets and treatments
European Respiratory Review, 2023 Silicosis as an occupational lung disease has been present in our lives for centuries. Research studies have already developed and implemented many animal models to study the pathogenesis and molecular basis of the disease and enabled the search for ...
A. Martínez-López +2 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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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023 Inhaling silica causes the occupational illness silicosis, which mostly results in the gradual fibrosis of lung tissue. Previous research has demonstrated that hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) and glycolysis-related genes are up-regulated in ...
Yuting Lu +7 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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Annals of Global Health, 2023 Objectives: Between the 1980s and 2000s, an epidemic of silicosis was identified in migrant black gold miners, many from neighbouring countries, who had worked in the South African gold mines.
R. Ehrlich +5 more
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Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016 Moraxella (formerly Branhamella) catarrhalis was discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, and for many decades it was considered to be a harmless commensal of the upper respiratory tract.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota +4 more
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