The Role of Freshly Fractured Silica in Acute Silicosis: Enhanced Hazard for Certain Workers: An Interview with Vincent Castranova, Ph.D.

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Vincent Castranova, Ph.D., is Chief of the Pathology and Physiology Research Branch in the Health Effects Laboratory Division at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). He last spoke with HarrisMartin Publishing about his chronic inhalation study of silica-exposed rats. See "Pulmonary Response of Rats to Crystalline Silica: Report on a Unique Six-Month Study" in the Premier 2002 issue of COLUMNS-Silica.

Dr. Castranova also has extensively studied acute silicosis and the role that freshly cut silica may play in that disease. Recently, he sat down with HarrisMartin editors to discuss the enhanced lung injury …