Carcinogenicity of Kevlar aramid pulp following intraperitoneal injection into rats
1. Injection studies were undertaken with laboratory rats and a preparation of the disaggregated filaments of Kevlar pulp2. Standard Kevlar pulp was subjected to violent disaggregation in Dulbecco’s phosphate buffered saline using the cavitation forces generated by a turreted tissue homogeniser.3. The disaggregated Kevlar preparation consisted of filaments of which 96% by number had a diameter of Publication Number: TM/87/12 First Author: Davis JMG Publisher: Edinburgh: Institute of Occupational Medicine Anyone wishing to make any commercial use of the downloadable articles on this page should contact the publishers of the journals. Please see the copyright notices on the journals' home pages: Permissions requests for Oxford Journals Online should be made to: [email protected] Permissions requests for Occupational Health Review articles should be made to the editor at [email protected]COPYRIGHT ISSUES