Abstract:The initial event after inhalation of quartz particles is their damaging effect on macrophages, which represent hte most critical cells involved in the pathogenesis of silicotic fibrosis (1,ll). Our previous studies (4,5,6,7,8,9), documented also by other authors (2,3,10,14) provided support for the assumption that lipid peroxidation may be one of the quartz cytotoxic mechanisms in cells and lung tissue. There is evidence that a cooperative antioxidative defense system located within the biological structures … Show more
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