(1) 14 patients with verified moderate contact allergy to colophony were patch tested with adhesive mass (10%), Portuguese colophony (10%), zinc oxide (10%), purified resin acids (10%), and Portuguese colophony (10%), in combination with zinc oxide.
(2) Patch testing with the ICDRG standard test battery gave positive reactions to colophony, balsam of Peru, and turpentine peroxides.
(3) Analysis of the agents to which workers with recognised occupational asthma were exposed identified commonly recognised agents such as isocyanates, colophony, and flour and generally less well recognised ones such as oil mists.
(4) All 3 positive patch tests to colophony were in males.
(5) Colophony and formaldehyde appeared to have less industrial significance than we expected.
(6) Of 8 mascaras analysed with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), 3 contained colophony.
(7) Four patients with occupational asthma associated with exposure to soldering flux or hot-melt glue containing pine resin (colophony) were subjected to occupational type inhalation challenge testing.
(8) Colophony (rosin) is a widespread material which is obtained from species of the family Pinaceae.
(9) Two groups of patients were studied, one with known contact allergy to colophony and hand eczema, 'colophony patients', and the other consisted of patients who suspected that their eczema was caused by contact with paper, 'paper patients'.
(10) The results of patch tests with colophony in the standard series between 1983 and 1987 were analyzed.
(11) In patients with hand eczema, in whom hydrocortisone sensitivity was less common, hydrocortisone was still a common allergen, occurring as frequently as wool alcohols and colophony.
(12) The eliciting potential was also verified in patients with known allergy to colophony.
(13) Twenty-one patients are described who developed asthma, or evidence of a peripheral airways reaction, while working in the electronics industry and exposed to solder flux fumes containing colophony (pine resin).
(14) Patients with suspected allergy to colophony were patch-tested with colophony (rosin) of different kinds (gum rosin, tall oil rosin).
(15) It is concluded that allergens found in colophony can also be present in Baltic amber.
(16) In the European standard series, only a few positive reactions were seen to possible cosmetic allergens: fragrance mix (n = 3), wool alcohols (n = 3), formaldehyde (n = 2), balsam of Peru (n = 1), and colophony (n = 1).
(17) Skin sensitisation could not be induced in mice by topical application, or by subcutaneous or intradermal injection of unconjugated colophony.
(18) We concluded that our patient had an occupational hand contact dermatitis induced by telefax paper and possibly caused by colophony allergy.
(19) The patients' eczema had been caused chiefly by contact with colophony in their work.
(20) 7 resin acids, 3 synthetically prepared derivatives and the neutral fraction of Chinese colophony were studied by experimental sensitization using a modified FCA method.
Rosin
Definition:
(n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
(v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is a sweaty ménage à quatre among the bow rosin and scoresheets.
(2) The numerous products that rosin-sensitive persons must avoid will be discussed in a future article.
(3) Rosine is a small, slim girl of 10, large-eyed and shy.
(4) Hydrogenation of the conjugated double bonds of abietic acid decreases its susceptibility to air oxidation and would thus reduce the allergenicity of rosin.
(5) Pure compounds were also tested in patients with known allergy to gum rosin.
(6) The growth inhibiting capacity of zinc oxide combined with ordinary rosin (Portuguese rosin), abietic acid or dehydroabietic acid was studied using two different methods.
(7) Skin problems can also arise from contact with rosin flux.
(8) Colophony (rosin) is a widespread material which is obtained from species of the family Pinaceae.
(9) Rosin and rosin esters have excellent film-forming properties.
(10) Inspection of fractured surfaces indicated failure of adhesion to dentine (Tubli-Seal) and to gutta-percha (AH26, Diaket) as well as failure of cohesion (CRCS, Kloroperka N-O, ProcoSol, rosin chloroform, Sealapex).
(11) The results showed that rosin and rosin-glycerol intermediates with acid values of 122, 105 and 55 had excellent moisture protection properties.
(12) Patients with suspected allergy to colophony were patch-tested with colophony (rosin) of different kinds (gum rosin, tall oil rosin).
(13) Relatively fewer dermatitis patients reacted to the neutral fraction compared with reactions to the unfractionated gum rosin when patch tested.
(14) The cytotoxic effect of dehydroabietic acid (DHAA), a resin acid found in rosin, was studied on human polymorphonuclear leukocytes using leakage of 51Cr from prelabeled cells, supravital staining, and transmission electron microscopy.
(15) Burnett doesn't know his own strength - watch as he busts open the rosin bag for the second time in 2013...now that's entertainment.
(16) The analyzed types of rosins possess polytropic general toxicity with primary impact on the functional state of liver, kidneys and the nervous system.
(17) Another oxidation product of dehydroabietic acid, 15-hydroxy-7-oxodehydroabietic acid, was synthesized and identified as a component of Portuguese gum rosin.
(18) However, the patients might have come in contact with the allergens in technically modified rosins.
(19) In conclusion the old tradition of treating wounds with pitch, sap, rosin, or rosin containing tapes might therefore have some antibacterial relevance.
(20) The study, thus, indicates that rosin in combination with zinc oxide enhances the transport of zinc through intact human skin, and that hydrocolloids promote the zinc absorption through wounds.