The Pulmonary Macrophage

By Bowden, Drummond H.

Book Id: WPLBN0000225731
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Pulmonary Macrophage
Author:	Bowden, Drummond H.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: A title as general as The Pulmonary Macrophage allows considerable latitude of approach. Since the topic has been reviewed recently (1,2),I will limit my remarks to an overview of the subject as seen by a pathologist and try to pose some of the many questions that remain unanswered. The macrophagic component of pulmonary clearance has an impressive adaptive capacity that can cope with very large particulate and aerosol loads. On occasion, however, either by virtue of an excessive load or the toxic nature of the particles, the macropbages may be overwhelmed. Such breaches of the defenses are seen in the black lung of the coal miner, farmers lung, and the nodular fibrosis induced by the inhalation of silica.