Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2000, Pages 675-684

  Castranova, V ^a   Vallyathan, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Black lung disease; Coal mine dust; Crystalline silica; Cytokines; Lung disease; Occupational diseases; Occupational exposures; Pulmonary fibrosis; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

COAL; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID OXIDATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NEUTROPHIL; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PHAGOCYTE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SILICOSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033824480     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108s4675     Document Type: Article

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