Effects of chrysotile and acid-treated chrysotile on macrophage cultures

Effects of chrysotile and acid-treated chrysotile on macrophage cultures.

Beck, E. G., Holt, P. F., and Nasrallah, E. T. (1971). Brit. J. industr. Med., 28, 179-185. Effects of chrysotile and acid-treated chrysotile on macrophage cultures. The addition of chrysotile asbestos to monolayer cultures of peritoneal and alveolar macrophages produces an increase in membrane permeability, as measured by eosin uptake and lactic dehydrogenase activity of the supernatant fluid....

Comparison of effects on macrophage cultures of glass fibre, glass powder, and chrysotile asbestos.

Effects of phosphorylation of chrysotile on pleuropulmonary fibrogenicity and carcinogenicity.

As well as fibre size, fibre chemistry is a determinant of toxicity of mineral fibres. On these grounds, a few years ago, the asbestos industry in Québec developed a process to modify the surface chemistry of chrysotile asbestos by fixing phosphorous atoms. The pleuropulmonary fibrogenicity and carcinogenicity of the native and surface treated chrysotile, called chrysophosphate, were tested. Bo...

Chrysotile asbestos: effects of human exposure.

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Chrysotile Asbestos and Mesothelioma

Assuming an average latency of 42 years, the authors predict that incidence rates will peak in 2009 and that diagnoses will peak in 2014. However, they caution that ongoing use of chrysotile asbestos (which has been implicated but not conclusively established as a cause of mesothelioma) and the release of asbestos fibers from older buildings during demolition or reno­ vation may slow the projec...