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The ingestion of asbestos fibers

Feeding of baboons with crocidolite showed small numbers of asbestos needles 0.5–1 μm in ashed tissue of the gut wall, which probably came from iron-containing macrophages. It is suggested that pleural plaques and hyaline nodules in the peritoneum represent a hypersensitivity reaction to ferritin pr...

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Autor principal: Webster, I.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1974
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4470936