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Heather A Lowers

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Hua J, Cool C, Lowers H, Go L, Zell-Baran L, Sarver E, et al.
Arch Pathol Lab Med . 2023 Jun; 148(3):327-335. PMID: 37270802
Context.—: Current approaches for characterizing retained lung dust using pathologists' qualitative assessment or scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) have limitations. Objective.—: To explore polarized light microscopy coupled with...
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Tavares Nassif M, Monecke T, Reynolds T, Kuiper Y, Goldfarb R, Piazolo S, et al.
Sci Rep . 2022 Oct; 12(1):17379. PMID: 36253461
Orogenic gold deposits are comprised of complex quartz vein arrays that form as a result of fluid flow along transcrustal fault zones in active orogenic belts. Mineral precipitation in these...
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Cohen R, Rose C, Go L, Zell-Baran L, Almberg K, Sarver E, et al.
Ann Am Thorac Soc . 2022 Mar; 19(9):1469-1478. PMID: 35353671
The reasons for resurgent coal workers' pneumoconiosis and its most severe forms, rapidly progressive pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis (PMF), in the United States are not yet fully understood. To...
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Lowers H, Breit G, Strand M, Pillers R, Meeker G, Todorov T, et al.
Toxicol Mech Methods . 2018 Apr; 28(7):475-487. PMID: 29685079
Humans accumulate large numbers of inorganic particles in their lungs over a lifetime. Whether this causes or contributes to debilitating disease over a normal lifespan depends on the type and...
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Plumlee G, Durant J, Morman S, Neri A, Wolf R, Dooyema C, et al.
Environ Health Perspect . 2013 Mar; 121(6):744-50. PMID: 23524139
Background: In 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières discovered a lead poisoning outbreak linked to artisanal gold processing in northwestern Nigeria. The outbreak has killed approximately 400 young children and affected thousands...
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Gray J, Plumlee G, Morman S, Higueras P, Crock J, Lowers H, et al.
Environ Sci Technol . 2010 May; 44(12):4782-8. PMID: 20491469
In vitro bioaccessibility (IVBA) studies were carried out on samples of mercury (Hg) mine-waste calcine (roasted Hg ore) by leaching with simulated human body fluids. The objective was to estimate...
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Bern A, Lowers H, Meeker G, Rosati J
Environ Sci Technol . 2009 Apr; 43(5):1449-54. PMID: 19350918
The collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, sent dust and debris across much of Manhattan and in the surrounding areas. Indoor and outdoor dust samples...
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Lowers H, Meeker G, Lioy P, Lippmann M
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol . 2008 May; 19(3):325-35. PMID: 18478046
The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on September 11, 2001, caused lower Manhattan and adjacent areas to be covered in millimeters to centimeters of dust. WTC dust...