E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1718185115

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E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Feb 2018

Lee Hyun-Wook, Park Sung-Hyun, Weng Mao-Wen, Wang Hsiang-Tsui, Huang William C, Lepor Herbert, Wu Xue-Ru, Chen Lung-Chi, Tang Moon-Shong

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E-cigarette smoke delivers stimulant nicotine as aerosol without tobacco or the burning process. It contains neither carcinogenic incomplete combustion byproducts nor tobacco nitrosamines, the nicotine nitrosation products. E-cigarettes are promoted as safe and have gained significant popularity. In this study, instead of detecting nitrosamines, we directly measured DNA damage induced by nitrosamines in different...

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E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells.

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