https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-019-02565-9

Anita R. Iskandar, Filippo Zanetti, Diego Marescotti, Bjorn Titz, Alain Sewer, Athanasios Kondylis, Patrice Leroy, Vincenzo Belcastro, Laura Ortega Torres, Stefano Acali, Shoaib Majeed, Sandro Steiner, Keyur Trivedi, Emmanuel Guedj, Celine Merg, Thomas Schneider, Stefan Frentzel, Florian Martin, Nikolai V. Ivanov, Manuel C. Peitsch, Julia Hoeng

Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Quai Jeanrenaud 5, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Previous experimental setups shows the effects of e-liquids on cell viability (first layer), followed by investigating the potential mechanisms of toxicity elicited by e-liquids (second layer) and finally assessing the impacts of aerosols (third layer). In this present work shows how the three-layer framework is leveraged to evaluate the potential toxicity and biological effects of the MESH Classic Tobacco and Base e-liquids/aerosols compared with those of 3R4F CS.

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DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01823

Ingeborg Kooter¹, Marit Ilves ², Mariska Gröllers-Mulderij ¹, Evert Duistermaat ³, Peter C. Tromp ¹, Frieke Kuper ¹, Pia Kinaret ^4,5, Kai Savolainen ⁶, Dario Greco ^4,5, Piia Karisola ², Joseph Ndika ², and Harri Alenius <sup>2,7

1</sup>The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO, P.O. Box 80015, Utrecht 3584 CB, The Netherlands
²Human Microbiome Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, Helsinki 00290, Finland
³Triskelion B.V., P.O. Box 844, Zeist 3704 HE, The Netherlands
⁴Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere FI-33014, Finland
⁵Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, Helsinki 00014, Finland
⁶Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 40, Helsinki 00014, Finland
⁷Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 210, Stockholm SE-17176, Sweden

3D human bronchial epithelial cells were cultured at the air−liquid interface that mimics relevant inhalatory exposure were exposed to aerosols of pristine (nCuO) and carboxylated (nCuOCOOH) copper oxide nanoparticles. This paper shows that the existence of asthma enhances sensitivity of the airways to nanoparticle aerosols, possibly as a combined result of a hyperactive airway and inefficient mucociliary clearance mechanisms in asthmatics. The test results are shown in cell viabilty (LDH), Inflammation (IL6, IL8, MCP1) and Transcroptomics.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2019.03.030
Méausoone C¹, El Khawaja R¹, Tremolet G¹, Siffert S¹, Cousin R¹, Cazier F², Billet S¹, Courcot D³, Landkocz Y¹.
¹ UCEIV - EA4492, Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, France.
² Centre Commun de Mesure, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, France.
³ UCEIV - EA4492, Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, France.. Electronic address: dominique.courcot@univ-littoral.fr.

BEAS-2B cells were exposed using an Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) System (Vitrocell®) to gaseous flows of toluene vapors and outflow after catalytic oxidation of toluene. After exposure to gaseous flow, cytotoxicity, inflammatory response and Xenobiotic Metabolism Enzymes (XME) gene expression were investigated.

Highlights
• Toxicity of toluene increases with time when cells are repeatedly exposed.
• Toxicological analysis helps for validation of catalysts used in treatment of VOCs.
• Cellular response supports the identification of chemically undetected by-products.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2019.03.004

Tollstadius BF, da Silva ACG, Oliveira BC, Pedralli, Valadares MC.

Laboratory of Education and Research in In vitro Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.

In this work, the toxicity of the fungicide Carbendazim upon A549 alveolar cells was tested in comparison of monolayer and air-liquid interface cell system exposition. 

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DOI:10.14573/altex.1901241

Aline Chary^1,2, Tommaso Serchi¹, Elisa Moschini¹, Jennifer Hennen², Sébastien Cambier¹, Janine Ezendam³, Brunhilde Blömeke² and Arno C. Gutleb^1
1Department of Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg; 
²Department of Environmental Toxicology, University Trier, Germany; 
³Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands

The Vitrocell® Cloud-6 system was used for the exposure of a coculture in vitro model to test compounds and vehicle controls. The 3D in vitro model was cultured at the air liquid interface consists of A549, EA.hy926, PMA-differentiated THP-1 and non-differentiated THP-1 cells, that were exposed to nebulized chemical respiratory sensitizers. The results are shown in flow cytometry measurements, cytokine release and gene expression.

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