We report the cases of three subjects who developed asthma after being exposed to formaldehyde dust or gas. For two subjects, specific bronchial provocation tests with formaldehyde gas did not cause significant bronchoconstriction, whereas exposure to formaldehyde resin dust did. One subject experienced asthmatic reaction after being exposed to formaldehyde resin dust and gas. These findings su...

Formaldehyde is an ubiquitous pollutant to which humans are exposed. Pathologists can experience high formaldehyde exposure levels. Formaldehyde-among other properties-induce oxidative stress and free radicals, which react with DNA and lipids, leading to oxidative damage and lipid peroxidation, respectively. We measured the levels of air-formaldehyde exposure in a group of Italian pathologists ...

The DUF156 family of DNA-binding transcriptional regulators includes metal sensors that respond to cobalt and/or nickel (RcnR, InrS) or copper (CsoR) plus CstR, which responds to persulfide, and formaldehyde-responsive FrmR. Unexpectedly, the allosteric mechanism of FrmR from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is triggered by metals in vitro, and variant FrmR(E64H) gains responsiveness to ...

poly urea-formaldehyde was synthesized simply and rapidly from urea and formaldehyde by condensation polymerization and studied for the sorption of trace acid blue from aqueous solution. the optimum ph value for sorption of the acid blue was 4. experimental results showed that the sorption capacity of poly urea-formaldehyde for acid blue was determined. the synthetic polymer can be reused for 5...

In industrial workers, formaldehyde exposure has been associated with cancer of the nasal cavities, nasopharynx, prostate, lung, and pancreas; however, these associations are inconsistent and remain controversial. Animals exposed to formaldehyde show excesses of nasal cancer. In an extended follow-up of a large cohort of formaldehyde-exposed workers, the authors evaluated mortality from solid c...

BACKGROUND Chronic formaldehyde exposure leads to memory impairment and abnormal elevation of endogenous formaldehyde has been found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Hyperphosphorylated Tau protein with subsequent aggregates as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is one of the typical pathological characteristics in AD brains. The mechanism underlying abnormally elevated concentra...

BACKGROUND The currently used patch test concentration of formaldehyde (1.0% aqua; 0.30 mg/cm(2)) has been shown to fail to detect ~ 50% of contact allergies to formaldehyde. OBJECTIVES To justify the inclusion of formaldehyde 2.0% aqua (0.60 mg/cm(2)) in the European baseline patch test series. METHODS A survey of the reported frequencies of contact allergy to formaldehyde found with forma...

OBJECTIVE To compare sensitivity of inner cell mass (ICM) outgrowth assay and analysis of culture media amino acid turnover with the sensitivity of the human sperm motility assay (HSMA) and murine embryo assay (MEA) for detection of formaldehyde toxicity. DESIGN Prospective in vitro study. SETTING University hospital-based infertility center. ANIMAL(S) Murine embryos. INTERVENTION(S) Th...

BACKGROUND In groups of patients with formaldehyde allergy, many have positive patch tests to quaternium-15. Conversely, of patients allergic to quaternium-15, over half also react to formaldehyde. OBJECTIVES To test our hypothesis that patients with stronger patch test reactions to formaldehyde are more likely to react to quaternium-15, attesting to the aetiological role for formaldehyde in ...

The Henry's law constant (HLC) and the overall mass transfer coefficient are both important parameters for modeling formaldehyde emissions from aqueous solutions. In this work, the apparent HLCs for formaldehyde aqueous solutions were determined in the concentration range from 0.01% to 1% (w/w) and at different temperatures (23, 40, and 55 °C) by a static headspace extraction method. The aqueou...