The effects of fibre length on the in vitro cytotoxicity of asbestos samples in three different assay system.
The ability of mineral fibers to cause disease in man is well established and the work of Stanton et al. (1977), Stanton and Layard (1978) and Pott (1978) has indicated that the ability of a dust to induce intrapleural tumors depends on the number of fibers in the sample that are greater than 8 pm in length and less than 1.5 μm in diameter.
Publication Number: P/86/04
First Author: GORMLEY IP
Other Authors: BROWN GM, COWIE H, WRIGHT A, DAVIS JMG.
Publisher: Berlin: Springer,
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