SOME BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF ASBESTOS ON MACROPHAGES

  • 1 January 1972
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 53  (4) , 397-+
Abstract
The in vitro effects of chrysotile, crocidolite and amosite asbestos, and silica and rutile dust, on hamster peritoneal macrophages were assessed by estimating the release of acid phosphatase into the culture medium and by changes in the composition of phospholipids in the cells.