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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-9-10
pubmed:abstractText
An ultrastructural study was performed on the respiratory system of budgerigars (including 6 controls) which were acutely affected by inhalation of toxic fumes from heated polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE pyrolysis products) or had survived fro 24 hours after a sublethal exposure. The controls were exposed to fumes from heated plan aluminum (ie, not coated with PTFE). The microanatomy of lungs of the controls was described and compared with that of lungs of the birds exposed to PTFE pyrolysates. The PTFE pyrolysates caused extensive, severe necrotizing and hemorrhagic pneumonitis. These lesions were associated with amorphous elongate conglomerates of particles which were similar to those isolated on membrane filters from fumes generated from heated PTFE--this supporting the hypothesis that the toxic principle in PTFE pyrolysates is at least, in part, related to generated particulates.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-9645
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
43
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1243-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute toxicosis of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) caused by pyrolysis products from heated polytetrafluoroethylene: microscopic study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't