CONTENTS — volume 21, suppl 2, 1995

Published: 1995

Special issue

1
Second international symposium on silica, silicosis and cancer
Goldsmith DF, Wagner GR, Saffiotti U, Rabovsky J, Leigh J (guest )

Proceedings paper

5
Mineralogical characteristics of silica polymorphs in relation to their biological activities
Guthrie GD Jr, Heaney PJ
9
Physicochemical properties of crystalline silica dusts and their possible implication in various biological responses
Fubini B, Bolis V, Cavenago A, Volante M
15
Particle activity and in vivo pulmonary response to freshly milled and aged alpha-quartz
Shoemaker DA, Pretty JR, Ramsey DM, McLaurin JL, Khan A, Teass AW, et al
19
Differential pulmonary responses in rats inhaling crystalline, colloidal or amorphous silica dusts
Warheit DB, McHugh TA, Hartsky MA
22
Direct interaction between crystalline silica and DNA -- a proposed model for silica carcinogenesis
Daniel LN, Mao Y, Williams AO, Saffiotti U
27
Neoplastic lung lesions in rat after chronic exposure to crystalline silica
Muhle H, Kittel B, Ernst H, Mohr U, Mermelstein R
30
Transforming growth factor 1, ras and p53 in silica-induced fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis
Williams AO, Saffiotti U
35
Methods used by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to monitor crystalline silica
Lorberau CD, Abell MT
39
Historical total and respirable silica dust exposure levels in mines and pottery factories in China
Dosemeci M, McLaughlin JK, Chen J-Q, Hearl F, Chen R-G, McCawley M, Wu Z, Peng K-L, Chen A-L, Rexing SH, Blot WJ
44
Potential for respirable quartz exposure from North Carolina farm soils
Stopford CM, Stopford W
47
Silica exposures in workplaces in the United States between 1980 and 1992
Freeman CS, Grossman EA
50
Mathematical model of phagocytosis and inflammation after the inhalation of quartz at different concentrations
Tran CL, Jones AD, Donaldson K
55
Silicosis surveillance in Ontario from 1979 to 1992
Finkelstein MM
58
Incidence of silicosis among ceramic workers in central Italy
Cavariani F, Di Pietro A, Miceli M, Forastiere F, Biggeri A, Scavalli P, Petti A, Borgia P
63
Preliminary analysis of proportional mortality in a cohort of British pottery workers exposed to crystalline silica
McDonald JC, Cherry N, McNamee R, Burgess G, Turner S
66
Preliminary study of lung cancer mortality in Western Australian gold miners exposed to silica
de Klerk NH, Musk AW, Tetlow S, Hansen J, Eccles JL
69
Lung cancer among workers exposed to silica dust in Chinese refractory plants
Dong D, Xu G, Sun Y, Hu P
73
Mortality among persons with silicosis reported to disease surveillance systems in Michigan and New Jersey in the United States
Rosenman KD, Stanbury MJ, Reilly MJ
77
Mortality among silicotics in Genoa, Italy, from 1961 to 1987
Merlo F, Fontana L, Reggiardo G, Ceppi M, Barisione G, Garrone E, Doria M
81
Silicosis and lung cancer among workers in North Carolina dusty trades
Amandus HE, Shy C, Castellan RM, Blair A, Heineman EF
84
Silica, silicosis and cancer in Finland
Partanen T, Jaakkola J, Tossavainen A
87
Assessment of silicosis risk for occupational exposure to crystalline silica
Rice FL, Stayner LT
91
Potential years of life lost and work tenure lost when silicosis is compared with other pneumoconioses
Zhong Y, Li D
95
Evaluation of crystalline silica as a threshold carcinogen
Klein AK, Christopher JP
99
Cancer risk assessment for crystalline silica to implement California's Hot Spots Act
Collins JF, Marty MA
104
Comparative cancer potency for silica from extrapolations of human and animal findings
Goldsmith DF, Ruble RP, Klein CO
108
Biogenic amorphous silica
Rabovsky J

Original article

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Biogenic amorphous silica.
Rabovsky J

Proceedings paper

111
Policy development for compensating workers exposed to crystalline silica in Ontario, Canada
Elinson L, Yeung KS
115
Future research needs in the silica, silicosis and cancer field
Goldsmith DF, Wagner GR, Saffiotti U, Rabovsky J, Leigh J