Schneider T, Stokholm J
Scand J Work Environ Health. 1981 Dec;7(4):271-6. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.2547.
The external eye can be considered a passive dust sampler. Foreign material deposited in the conjunctival cul-de-sac becomes enclosed by mucous fibrils. The fibrils adhere to the conjunctival mucous thread. Hence, by removing the mucus, one can study, eg, man-made mineral fibers deposited in the eye. In this study a simple method for this purpose has been developed, and the sampling characteristics of the eye for nonrespirable fibers is described. The numbers of nonrespirable fibers accumulated in the eyes correlated with the total dust exposure dose (correlation coefficient r = 0.92) and with the nonrespirable fiber exposure dose (r = 0.82). There was no correlation between the airborne fiber concentration and the number of fibers in the mucous thread alone.
眼球表面可被视为一个被动的灰尘采样器。沉积在结膜穹窿部的异物会被黏液纤维包裹。这些纤维附着在结膜黏液丝上。因此，通过去除黏液，就可以研究例如沉积在眼睛中的人造矿物纤维。在本研究中，为此开发了一种简单的方法，并描述了眼睛对不可吸入纤维的采样特性。眼睛中积累的不可吸入纤维数量与总粉尘暴露剂量相关（相关系数r = 0.92），也与不可吸入纤维暴露剂量相关（r = 0.82）。空气中纤维浓度与黏液丝中纤维数量之间没有相关性。
