Serum sulphydryl changes in rheumatoid coalworkers' pneumoconiosis patients treated with D-penicillamine.
1977
P H Evans
Medical Research Council, Pneumoconiosis Reseach Unit, Llandough Hospital, South Glamorgan, Wales.
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MeSH Term
Description
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D010396
Penicillamine
3-Mercapto-D-valine. The most characteristic degradation product of the penicillin antibiotics. It is used as an antirheumatic and as a chelating agent in Wilson's disease.
A diffuse parenchymal lung disease caused by inhalation of dust and by tissue reaction to their presence. These inorganic, organic, particulate, or vaporized matters usually are inhaled by workers in their occupational environment, leading to the various forms (ASBESTOSIS; BYSSINOSIS; and others). Similar air pollution can also have deleterious effects on the general population.
Bagassosis,Pneumoconioses
D003032
Coal Mining
The practice of extracting COAL from the earth.
Mining, Coal
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man