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Silica-exposed patients with silicosis show shorter telomeres than do unexposed individuals: a pilot study in a population in southeastern Brazil [PDF]

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Objective: Silicosis is a pneumoconiosis characterized by fibrosis of the lung parenchyma caused by the inhalation of silica particles. Silica dust inhalation is associated with inflammation and induction of oxidative stress in the lungs.
Marcos César Santos de Castro, Lucas de Carvalho Costa, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Patrícia Canto Ribeiro, Walter Costa, Angela Santos Ferreira Nani, Fabiana Barzotto Kohlrausch   +7 more
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Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Chronic Silicosis: A Case Report

Case Reports in Pathology, 2014
Silicosis is an occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica. People working in occupations like sandblasting, surface drilling, tunneling, silica flour milling, ceramic making, and so forth are predisposed to develop silicosis ...
Pritinanda Mishra, Sajini Elizabeth Jacob, Debdatta Basu, Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Vishnukanth Govindaraj   +4 more
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Periodontal conditions and salivary microbiota are potential indicators to distinguish silicosis: an exploratory study

BMC Microbiology
Background Silicosis has always been a serious global occupational health problem. Oral microbiota plays important roles in the development of lung disease.
Shaoying Duan, Meiying Shao, Chenchen Zhang, Jialiang Zhao, Fangzhi Zhu, Nanyu Luo, Lei Lei, Ting Zhong, Tao Hu   +8 more
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Relationship between plasma SP-A expression level and disease stage in silicosis patients

Shanghai yufang yixue
ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between plasma surfactant protein⁃A （SP⁃A） expression level and silicosis progression， and to provide early evidence for exploring whether SP⁃A can be used as a biomarker for clinical monitoring of silicosis ...
CHEN Kengkeng, ZHANG Bizhu, PENG Yingyi, LIU Zhifang, CHEN Xiaoyan, JIN Jiachun   +5 more
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Activation of Sirt1 by acetate alleviates silicofibrosis: Contribution of the gut microbiota

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Silicosis is a prevalent occupational disease marked by progressive pulmonary fibrosis. Despite its significant health burden, the pathogenesis of silicosis remains unclear, and no specific therapeutic drugs are available.
Weiliang Zhang, Xuejie Qi, Mingming Han, Qiang Jia, Xixi Li, Wenhui Yin, Yanhui Wang, Heng Wu, Hua Shao, Cheng Peng, Chongyi Su, Linlin Sai   +11 more
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Framework for implementing collaborative TB-silicosis activities in India: insights from an expert panel

Archives of Public Health
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment is more challenging for patients with silicosis, as it complicates the diagnosis of both diseases and increases mortality risk. Silicosis, an incurable occupational disease, confounds the diagnosis of TB and vice versa, making
Mihir P. Rupani, Pankaj Nimavat, Yogesh Patel, Harsh D. Shah, Arkaprabha Sau   +4 more
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One-year lung transplantation outcomes for engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis at a single center in Southern California, 2019 to 2023

JHLT Open
Background: In the past decade, growing industrial exposure to respirable crystalline silica from manufacturing engineered stone (ES) products has caused rapidly progressive, irreversible silicosis worldwide.
Reice Robinson, MD, Jeremy T. Hua, MD, MPH, Bryanna Lee, Karen Villegas, Samvel Gaboyan, Cecile S. Rose, MD, MPH, Christine M. Lin, MD, Eugene Golts, MD, Gordon Yung, MD, Tara Akins, NP-BC, Catherine Gaissert, PA-C, Christina Malles, PA-C, Ana Maria Gloria, NP-C, Kamyar Afshar, DO   +13 more
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Silicosis

Anales de la Facultad de Medicina, 2013
La silicosis es una neumoconiosis producida por inhalación repetida de polvo de sílice, caracterizada por fibrosis pulmonar y acompañada de problemas bronquíticos. Es factor predisponente para cáncer pulmonar y determina incapacidades laborales temporales o permanentes.
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GAMG ameliorates silica-induced pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis via the regulation of EMT and NLRP3/TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Silicosis is an occupational disease caused by exposure to silica characterized by pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis, for which there is a lack of effective drugs.
Jing Zhang, Jiazhen Zhang, Zongze Yao, Wei Shao, Yuanchao Song, Wenjian Tang, Bo Li   +6 more
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PECULIARITIES OF SILICOTUBERCULOSIS IN THE WORKERS OF FERROUS METALLURGY ENTERPRISES

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2012
The results of long-term dispensary supervision (14 years) of 284 silicosis patients (including 54 silicotuberculosis patients) worked at Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant have shown that high concentration of dust in air with 5% content of free silicon ...
V. V. Zakharenkov, O. A. Morozova, I. V. Viblaya   +2 more
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