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Millhands, farmers, and the legacy of southern populism. [Review of: R. E. Botsch. Organizing the breathless: cotton dust, southern politics and the Brown Lung Association. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993; T. Campbell. The politics of despair: power and resistance in the tobacco wars. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993].

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Low normal alpha-1-antitrypsin serum concentrations and MZ-phenotype are associated with byssinosis and familial allergy in cotton mill workers.

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Recent studies have shown a close association between byssinosis and airborne endotoxin concentrations. Endotoxin might induce byssinosis through the release of biochemical mediators as the broncheoalveolar surface. Alpha-1-antitrypsin (alpha-1-A) which neutralizes enzymes released by granulocytes

Current trends in research on the etiology and pathogenesis of byssinosis.

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The features of the cotton dust syndrome which need to be considered when formulating a hypothesis on mechanism(s) are: 1) the presence of fever, 2) the "Monday effect," 3) the slow onset of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) changes, and 4) the presence of bronchitis in chronic sufferers

Women's respiratory health in the cotton textile industry: an analysis of respiratory symptoms in 973 non-smoking female workers.

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As part of a 1992 survey of both environmental and occupational determinants of health, 973 non-smoking women aged 20-40 years who were employed in three comparable modern Chinese cotton textile mills were given a questionnaire that included questions on standard respiratory history and symptoms.

Airborne micro-organisms and prevalence of byssinotic symptoms in cotton mills.

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The concentration of airborne microbes, their endotoxins and the prevalence of byssinotic symptoms among workers were measured in the cardrooms of seven cotton spinning, a wool spinning and two cotton waste mills and in a dusty workroom of a group of five willowing mills, a tea-packing plant and a

A study of the prevalence of acute respiratory disorders among workers in the textile industry.

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An epidemiological study of 774 workers in seven eastern France cotton textile factories was conducted to determine the prevalence of acute respiratory disorders. From nine non-textile companies, 464 workers, stratified as to sex, age and tobacco consumption participated in the study as a control

Environmental Causes of Asthma.

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Environmental factors which cause asthma are those that induce airway inflammation with eosinophils (more common) or neutrophils along with airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). The most common of these (indeed the most common cause of asthma) are IgE-mediated inhalant allergen exposures.

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