Pulmonary fibrogenesis after three consecutive inhalation exposures to chrysotile asbestos.

TGF-β stimulation and inhibition of cell proliferation: New mechanistic insights

1990 • 992 citations

Induction of transforming growth factor-α in activated human alveolar macrophages

1988 • 359 citations

Chrysotile asbestos inhalation in rats: deposition pattern and reaction of alveolar epithelium and pulmonary macrophages.

1981 • 234 citations

Chronic Inhalation Toxicity of Size-Separated Glass Fibers in Fischer 344 Rats

1993 • 178 citations

Comparisons of the pathogenicity of long and short fibres of chrysotile asbestos in rats.

1988 • 132 citations

Pulmonary macrophage accumulation and asbestos-induced lesions at sites of fiber deposition.

1984 • 117 citations

Differential Proliferation of Rat Lung Fibroblasts Induced by the Platelet-derived Growth Factor-AA, -AB, and -BB Isoforms Secreted by Rat Alveolar Macrophages

1991 • 103 citations

Deposition pattern of inorganic particles at the alveolar level in the lungs of rats and mice.

1983 • 102 citations

Progressive lung cell reactions and extracellular matrix production after a brief exposure to asbestos.

1988 • 99 citations

An overload hypothesis for pulmonary clearance of UICC amosite fibres inhaled by rats.

1983 • 99 citations

Deposition, clearance, and translocation of chrysotile asbestos from peripheral and central regions of the rat lung

1992 • 72 citations

Dose-responsive increases in pulmonary fibrosis after inhalation of asbestos.

1994 • 71 citations

A homologue of platelet‐derived growth factor produced by rat alveolar macrophages

1988 • 68 citations

Fiber localization and its relationship to lung reaction in rats after chronic inhalation of chrysotile asbestos.

1984 • 68 citations

Chrysotile asbestos upregulates gene expression and production of alpha-receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-AA) on rat lung fibroblasts.

1993 • 68 citations

Distribution of transforming growth factor-beta 1, fibronectin, and smooth muscle actin in asbestos-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats.

1994 • 66 citations

Application of Morphometric Methods to Study Diffuse and Focal Injury in the Lung Caused by Toxic Agents

1985 • 62 citations

A murine model of asbestosis

1983 • 52 citations

Chrysotile asbestos stimulates platelet-derived growth factor-AA production by rat lung fibroblasts in vitro: evidence for an autocrine loop.

1995 • 47 citations

Characterization of three types of chrysotile asbestos after aerosolization

1983 • 41 citations

Inhalation of chrysotile asbestos induces rapid cellular proliferation in small pulmonary vessels of mice and rats.

1990 • 39 citations

Chrysotile Asbestos Inhalation Induces Tritiated Thymidine Incorporation by Epithelial Cells of Distal Bronchioles

1989 • 20 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF COUNTING RULES ON THE NUMBER AND ON THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF FIBRES

1978 • 15 citations