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CORRECTION article

Front. Public Health, 29 October 2025

Sec. Occupational Health and Safety

Volume 13 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1713436

This article is part of the Research TopicMineral Particles and Fibers and Human Health Risks: State-of-the-Art in Characterization, Analysis, Tissue Analytics, Exposure Thresholds for Risk, Epidemiology, and Risk Assessment for Science-Based Regulation and Disease Prevention and Implications for Occupational Health and SafetyView all 24 articles

Correction: Cellular defense mechanisms against asbestos fibers

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  1. Cellular defense mechanisms against asbestos fibers

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Christy A. BarlowChristy A. Barlow1Brooke T. Mossman Brooke T. Mossman2*
  • 1Aetia Scientific Collaborative, Boulder, CO, United States
  • 2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States

A Correction on
Cellular defense mechanisms against asbestos fibers

by Barlow, C. A., and Mossman, B. T. (2025). Front. Public Health 13:1566473. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1566473

The conflict of interest statement was erroneously given as “The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.” The correct conflict of interest statement is “This article was prepared and written exclusively by the authors. No outside entities provided input to the study or reviewed it prior to publication. CB and BM have served as experts in talc, silica, and/or asbestos-related litigation.”

The original version of this article has been updated.

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Keywords: asbestos, elongated mineral fibers (EMPs), mesothelioma, lung cancer, threshold

Citation: Barlow CA and Mossman BT (2025) Correction: Cellular defense mechanisms against asbestos fibers. Front. Public Health 13:1713436. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1713436

Received: 26 September 2025; Accepted: 16 October 2025;
Published: 29 October 2025.

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