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- Salih, Tayeb
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وكان الكون رماديا : قصص مختارة من العالم العربي
- 2008. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urval: Henry Diab; översättning från arabiska: Henry Diab, Kerstin Johansson, Helen Avery. Urvalet omfattar 'En handfull dadlar' från 1964 av Tayeb Salih från Sudan; 'Hon var inte medveten om det' av saudiska Zainab Hifni; 'Damrummet' av Hana Atiyye från Egypten; 'Främling i sitt eget land' av Fawzia Ashmawi från Egypten; 'En kopp te hos Mrs. Robinson' av Ghalia Kabbani från Syrien; 'Siestan' av Salwa El-Naimi från Syrien; 'Den lytte och den lättfotade' av Mohamed Zefzaf från Marocko; 'En gammal kvinnas huvudbry' av Mahdi Isa al-Saqr från Irak; 'Spegelbilden' av Ibtisam Abdallah från Irak; 'Hos mig varje dag' av Abd al-Sattar Nasir från Irak; 'Zahra kommer till kvarteret' av Laila Al-Othman från Kuwait och 'Mor, vad är det här för en nyckel?' av Samira Azzam från Palestina.
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- Darwish, Mahmoud
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Tillstånd av belägring : Dikter
- 2005
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna diktsamling skildrar palestinierna under den pågående belägringen, sedan Israel invaderade Västbanken. Den intar därför en speciell plats i Darwish' produktion och har bl.a. en dokumenterande, historisk funktion.
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- Diab, Kerstin, et al.
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Persulphate challenge in female hairdressers with nasal hyperreactivity suggests immune cell, but no IgE reaction.
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-1246 .- 0340-0131. ; 82, s. 771-777
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of persulphate on the nasal mucosa and on the immune cells in hairdressers suffering from bleaching powder associated rhinitis (BAR) versus subjects with rhinitis not previously exposed to bleaching powder. METHODS: Fifteen hairdressers (S) with BAR, 14 without symptoms (WS) and 12 atopics (A) with rhinitis but without exposure to bleaching powder were studied. Each performed a nasal challenge with persulphates. Effect parameters were symptom score, acoustic rhinometry, albumin in nasal lavage, subpopulations of lymphocytes in blood and specific serum antibodies. RESULTS: The S group had a post-challenge increase in nasal symptoms and nasal lavage albumin. The A group reacted to a lesser intent. The S and A groups showed an increase in Th1 cells. An HLA class II cell expression was noticed in both groups of hairdressers. No evidence of a type 1 reaction (immediate type) to persulphate was noticed. CONCLUSIONS: Persulphate challenge affects hairdressers with BAR, but also atopics. The reaction may be driven by a Th1 cell activation.
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- Jönsson, Lena S, et al.
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Gene expression in nasal lavage from hairdressers exposed to persulphate.
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-1246 .- 0340-0131. ; 82, s. 1261-1266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: Many hairdressers experience work-related symptoms from the airways caused by bleaching powder. This contains persulphates, which could be irritating to the mucous membrane and also may evoke an allergic reaction. However, specific IgE antibodies are difficult to detect. We found earlier that hairdressers with work-related bleaching powder-associated nasal symptoms reacted to persulphate, but that atopics also did and that the mechanism appeared to be similar in the two groups. In this study, we analysed gene expression of cytokines in the nose in order to further investigate the mechanism for work-related bleaching powder-associated nasal symptoms. METHODS: The study subjects belonged to either hairdressers with work-related bleaching powder-associated nasal symptoms (S; n = 6), hairdressers without work-related bleaching powder-associated symptoms (WS; n = 7) or atopics (A; n = 6). Nasal lavage was performed before and during (up to 4 h after the last challenge) provocation with potassium persulphate. Expression of two genes involved in allergic inflammation [interleukin 5 (IL5) and IL13] and one involved in cell-mediated immunity (interferon-gamma; IFNG) were analysed in nasal lavage with quantitative PCR. RESULTS: The change of IL5 in the S group differed when compared to the WS group (P = 0.0051), in the A group when compared to the WS group (P = 0.014), but not in the S group when compared to the A group (P = 0.82). The change of IL13 in the A group differed when compared to the S (P = 0.041) and WS (P = 0.014) groups, but no difference was noticed between the S and WS groups (P = 0.30). The relative level of IFNG increased from before challenge to during challenge in the S group (P = 0.031). CONCLUSIONS: Symptomatic hairdressers showed increased expression of IL5 and IFNG, but not IL13, during challenge. Hairdressers without work-related bleaching powder-associated nasal symptoms showed no markedly changed reaction. Atopics showed increased expression of IL5 and IL13. Thus, this may indicate a difference in the mechanism of symptoms between symptomatic hairdressers and atopics. However, due to the low number of participants, further studies are needed to elucidate the mechanism for persulphate-associated nasal symptoms.
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- Lind, M. L., et al.
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Incidence of hand eczema in female Swedish hairdressers
- 2007
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Ingår i: Occup Environ Med. - : BMJ. - 1470-7926 .- 1351-0711. ; 64:3, s. 191-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To estimate the occurrence of hand eczema in hairdressers in Sweden. METHODS: The occurrence of hand eczema was estimated in a Swedish longitudinal retrospective cohort study including all female graduates from vocational schools for hairdressers from 1970 to 1995. A stratified sample from the general population acted as controls. A self-administered questionnaire including questions on the occurrence of hand eczema, skin atopy, working periods and number of hair treatments performed per week was sent to the participants. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of hand eczema were estimated. RESULTS: The incidence rate of hand eczema in hairdressers was 23.8 cases/1000 person-years, whereas in hairdressers who were aged <25 years it was 37.1/1000 person-years. The corresponding IRR for hairdressers compared with controls was 2.5 (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.2 to 2.8), and that for younger hairdressers was 3.1 (95% CI 2.6 to 3.5). The mean age at onset of hand eczema was 21.6 years for hairdressers and 21.2 years for controls. The 1-year prevalence of hand eczema was 18.0% for hairdressers and 12.1% for controls. A large number of hair treatments involving exposure to skin irritants and sensitisers were reported. The incidence rate of hand eczema was higher among individuals with a history of childhood eczema, both for hairdressers and for controls, giving an (age-adjusted) IRR of 1.9 and 2.2, respectively. The attributable fraction of hand eczema from skin atopy was 9.6%. A synergistic effect of skin atopy and hairdressing was found on the occurrence of hand eczema. The relative excess risk due to interaction was 1.21 (95% CI 0.21 to 2.21; p = 0.01). CONCLUSION: Hairdressers are highly exposed to skin-damaging substances. The self-reported incidence of hand eczema was substantially higher in female hairdressers than in controls from the general population and than that found previously in register-based studies. For many individuals, onset of hand eczema occurs early in life. Only about 10% of the hand eczema cases among hairdressers would be prevented if no one with skin atopy entered the trade.
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Och himlen var grå : Noveller av arabiska författare
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Urvalet omfattar 'En handfull dadlar' från 1964 av Tayeb Salih från Sudan; 'Hon var inte medveten om det' av saudiska Zainab Hifni; 'Damrummet' av Hana Atiyye från Egypten; 'Främling i sitt eget land' av Fawzia Ashmawi från Egypten; 'En kopp te hos Mrs. Robinson' av Ghalia Kabbani från Syrien; 'Siestan' av Salwa El-Naimi från Syrien; 'Den lytte och den lättfotade' av Mohamed Zefzaf från Marocko; 'En gammal kvinnas huvudbry' av Mahdi Isa al-Saqr från Irak; 'Spegelbilden' av Ibtisam Abdallah från Irak; 'Hos mig varje dag' av Abd al-Sattar Nasir från Irak; 'Zahra kommer till kvarteret' av Laila Al-Othman från Kuwait och 'Mor, vad är det här för en nyckel?' av Samira Azzam från Palestina.
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- Thuresson, Kaj, et al.
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Occupational exposure to commercial decabromodiphenyl ether in workers manufacturing or handling flame retarded rubber
- 2005
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Technology. - : American chemical society. - 0013-936X .- 1520-5851. ; 39:7, s. 1980-1986
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Commercial decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE) is commonly used as a flame retardant in different electrical and textile applications. It is also used in the production of flame-retarded rubber compound. DecaBDE is the major technical polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) in use today and consists mainly of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209). PBDEs, including BDE-209, are well-known environmental pollutants, ubiquitous both in aquatic and terrestrial environments. The aim of the present study was to assess the exposure to PBDEs in workers manufacturing or handling rubber which was flame retarded with DecaBDE. A referent group, abattoir workers (slaughterhouse workers), with no occupational exposure to PBDEs, was also investigated. Moreover, the methodology for analysis of PBDEs in serum was refined, with special emphasis on congeners with a high number of bromine substituents, i.e., octa- to decaBDEs. The highest BDE-209 concentration observed among the rubber workers was 280 pmol/g lipid weight (l.w.) (270 ng/g l.w.). The median concentration of BDE-209 among rubber workers was 37 pmol/g l.w. (35 ng/g l.w.). Among referents, the median was 2.5 (range 0.92−9.7) pmol/g l.w. (median 2.4 ng/g l.w.). In rubber workers the BDE-209 concentrations were up to 32% (median 4%) of the 2,2‘,4,4‘,5,5‘-chlorobiphenyl (CB-153) concentra tions, on a molar basis, whereas the referents had BDE-209 concentrations which were similar to that of 2,2‘,4,4‘-bromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47), below 1.4% (median 0.3%) of the CB-153 concentration. Concentrations of all nonabromodiphenyl ethers (nonaBDEs) and several octabrmodiphenyl ethers (octaBDEs) congeners, including BDE-203, were also elevated among the rubber workers, with 2.5- to 11-fold higher median concentrations, compared to the referents. The results confirm a significant uptake of BDE-209 in the workers exposed to DecaBDE and indicate a potential for in vivo formation of lower BDEs in these persons.
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