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short-fiber asbestos was essentially the saoa as that already observed in the
Qxperiawjt with Xirtg1 c floats asb-oton. The rats of reaction also was approxi-
aately tha s-sos feot the extent of involriswnb with the snart-fibar dust was
very raich less sad after 16 to 2li eaonth:: of nxpoeure only a vary few
fcci
of reaction, which generally required microscopic eranination for detection, were
produced in the cadnea pigs.
Until exposures had continued for approxiBately coo Tear, there was little
tendency for dueb-cer.tainirg phagocytes to collect intc clasps. By 16 nonths
phagocytes had befjen tc collect shout tho walls of a few of the respiratory bron
chioles with a little proliforation or infiltration of sononaelear cells ia these
walls. There were ;ilso soaa irultinucia&tsd cells but they were always of the
inert fcrsign-body type. At 20 to 2k tenths the cellular ciuepa were sotaefclaee
quite a&rked and aosstiaca changes in the epithaliua resulted in the adencesa-like
or ?^de^srfctoid,, appaaraace previously described in Section IT. In aost of the
subsequent Mahers of ths 3erics, tho reaction rocained cellular in type. In a
fswt howsTer, fibrous elascats dominated the picture. In the Latter case, trie
collages *w i*l3 in color ar.d tenuous uith no hearty swollen, hya.Td.nlta.tioa. As
in the rats described below, iho alveolar wp-lli sight bo cade up of a bead of
collagen supporting a layer of ardtheliUs*, hut with m contained capillaries. In
the trechecbroasfei&l lyxph node*? the raaetion *5.3 ttoro pronounced in this erperl-
nt than ia the prrficasf. cts with King' a .floats asbestos, probably beesuee of
the trsssrpox^eticn of n excess of fine particl** to thfi nodes in arnrais inhaling
shert-fib-sr aebweto.t., The reaction was **mbiaily on increase in rsticuiua, rattier
then jl fifcrc4ie; i-ith preservation of tluj original cell& between the thickened
reticular fiber*. Diffwe chronic plour1
tthout evidence of pulmonary infection
pr*Bnt in 4 far v~' '