https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2018.02.063
Anita R. Iskandar, Florian Martin, Patrice Leroy, Walter K. Schlage, Carole Mathis, Bjorn Titz, Athanasios Kondylis, Thomas Schneider, Grégory Vuillaume, Alain Sewer, Emmanuel Guedj, Keyur Trivedi, Ashraf Elamin, Stefan Frentzel, Nikolai V. Ivanov, Manuel C. Peitsch, Julia Hoeng
PMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Part of Philip Morris International group of companies, Quai Jeanrenaud 5, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Highlights
• Aerosols of a heat-not-burn tobacco product elicited lower impacts compared with smoke of 3R4F reference cigarettes.
• Systems toxicology revealed changes at the cellular–molecular levels not otherwise apparent from morphological features.
• The reduced impact of heated tobacco aerosols on small airway was similar than that on nasal epithelial cultures.
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