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  • Title: A study of the age factor in experimental silicosis in rats.
    Author: Shanker R, Sahu AP, Dogra RK, Zaidi SH.
    Journal: Environ Physiol Biochem; 1975; 5(3):158-64. PubMed ID: 1149725.
    Abstract:
    In order to study the progress of pulmonary silicosis in rats of different ages, intratracheal injections of (50 mg/150 g body weight) quartz dust of particle size less than 5 mu were given as a single dose and studies were made over a period of 180 days. The pulmonary macrophage reaction and phagocytosis in the younger age group of rats was different from that in the older animals at 30 days postinoculation. The formation of silicotic nodules was delayed in the younger animals. They consisted of thick reticulin fibers and some collagen fibers; in the older group of rats large silicotic nodules with dense collagination developed towards the termination of the experiment (180 days). The present results indicate a possible direct relationship between age and the development of experimental pulmonary silicosis in rats.
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