This opening paper introduces the contributions of this special issue on mineral fibres and reports a gallery of the major results accomplished within the multidisciplinary project PRIN (PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE) 2017 “FIBRES: a multidisciplinary mineralogical, crystal-chemical and biological project to amend the paradigm of toxicity and cancerogenicity of mineral fibres” by the six different Research Units from the Universities of Ancona, Genova, Modena, Rome, Pisa-Parma, and Urbino. The main goal of the project was to increase the knowledge of the mechanisms by which mineral fibres, with special attention to asbestos and fibrous erionite, prompt adverse effects in vivo, linking the fibres’ crystal-chemical-physical parameters to their toxicity/carcinogenicity potential and recasting the existing mechanistic ‘fibre toxicity paradigms’. This special issue contains specific contributions from each Research Unit of the project. The implications of the findings of the project are beyond the advance of the knowledge in the world of mineralogy/crystallography and constitute a remarkable progress in the understanding of the biological activity of mineral fibres in vivo

PRIN 2017 Fibres - A Multidisciplinary Mineralogical, Crystal-Chemical and Biological Project. What have we learned after four years of research? / Gualtieri, Alessandro; Leoncini, Mauro; Fantone, Sonia; DI VALERIO, Silvia; Tossetta, Giovanni; Procopio, Antonio D.; Marzioni, Daniela; Pugnaloni, Armanda; Maria Bassi, Anna; Almonti, Vanessa; Mirata, Serena; Vernazza, Stefania; Tirendi, Sara; Marengo, Barbara; Traverso, Nicola; Passalacqua, Mario; Scarfì, Sonia; Raneri, Simona; Fornasini, Laura; Bersani, Danilo; Ballirano, Paolo; Pacella, Alessandro; Bloise, Andrea; Ottaviani, Maria F.; Mattioli, Michele; Giordani, Matteo; Della Ventura, Giancarlo; Perchiazzi, Natale. - In: PERIODICO DI MINERALOGIA. - ISSN 2239-1002. - 92:2(2023), pp. 143-158. [10.13133/2239-1002/18021]

PRIN 2017 Fibres - A Multidisciplinary Mineralogical, Crystal-Chemical and Biological Project. What have we learned after four years of research?

Sonia Fantone;Silvia Di Valerio;Giovanni Tossetta;Antonio D. Procopio;Daniela Marzioni;Armanda Pugnaloni;
2023-01-01

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This opening paper introduces the contributions of this special issue on mineral fibres and reports a gallery of the major results accomplished within the multidisciplinary project PRIN (PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE) 2017 “FIBRES: a multidisciplinary mineralogical, crystal-chemical and biological project to amend the paradigm of toxicity and cancerogenicity of mineral fibres” by the six different Research Units from the Universities of Ancona, Genova, Modena, Rome, Pisa-Parma, and Urbino. The main goal of the project was to increase the knowledge of the mechanisms by which mineral fibres, with special attention to asbestos and fibrous erionite, prompt adverse effects in vivo, linking the fibres’ crystal-chemical-physical parameters to their toxicity/carcinogenicity potential and recasting the existing mechanistic ‘fibre toxicity paradigms’. This special issue contains specific contributions from each Research Unit of the project. The implications of the findings of the project are beyond the advance of the knowledge in the world of mineralogy/crystallography and constitute a remarkable progress in the understanding of the biological activity of mineral fibres in vivo
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