TY - GEN AU - Ayman Ahmed Hassan Alkady AU - Maha Anwar Ali , TI - Effect of an environmental chemical pollutant on some biophysical properties of human blood / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ayman Ahmed Hassan Alkady , KW - Antioxidants KW - Dielectric Blood KW - Silicosis N1 - Thesis(M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Biophysics; Issued also as CD N2 - Silica dust stimulates the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from alveolar macrophages which overwhelms antioxidant defenses of the lung and causes lipid peroxidation and cell damage in the present study plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) level (as an index of lipid peroxidation) and erythrocyte reduced glutathione GSH UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -