Stéphanie Boué¹, Didier Goedertier¹, Julia Hoeng¹ , Arkadiusz Kuczaj¹, Shoaib Majeed¹, Carole Mathis¹, Anne May² , Blaine Phillips³, Manuel C Peitsch¹, Falk Radtke¹, Walter K Schlage⁴, Wei Teck Tan³ and Patrick Vanscheeuwijck¹

¹ Philip Morris International (PMI) Research & Development, Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchâtel, Switzerland
² Consultants in Science, Epalinges, Switzerland
³ Philip Morris International (PMI) Research & Development, Philip Morris International Research Laboratories Pte. Ltd, Science Park II, Singapore
⁴ Biology Consultant, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

The VC 24/48 exposure system is being validated for the exposure process of three-dimensional, organotypic cell culture inserts with CS and with aerosols generated from HNB tobacco products and e-liquids.
They aerosol deposition of different CS concentrations as determined by three different approaches were assessed and compared : (1) a WST-1 colorimetric assay; (2) the determination of eight carbonyls trapped in PBS; and (3) QCM-determined particle mass deposition.

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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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Following the VITROCELL® User Group Meeting 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, international scientists from Europe, Japan, Korea and USA reconvened in March 2019.

The informal event organized into short presentations and posters was followed by open discussions. It was an excellent opportunity to discuss the latest developments of VITROCELL®, to exchange your experience in working with the equipment and to meet other fellow researchers.
The meeting took place prior to the international Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo, March 10 – 14, 2018, in Baltimore, USA - one of the largest international conferences related to toxicology.

Focus of the event was to share VITROCELL® activities since the last meeting, to exchange latest research results, to give an update on VITROCELL’s participation in major research programs as well as the presentation of new products for 2019.

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DOI:10.1007/s11739-019-02055-x
Filippo Zanetti¹, Athanasios Kondylis¹, Florian Martin¹, Patrice Leroy¹, Shoaib Majeed¹, Sandro Steiner¹, Yang Xiang¹, Laura Ortega Torres¹, Keyur Trivedi¹, Emmanuel Guedj¹, Celine Merg¹, Stefan Frentzel1, Nikolai V. Ivanov¹, Utkarsh Doshi², Kyeonghee Monica Lee², Willie J. McKinneyJr², Manuel C. Peitsch¹, Julia Hoeng¹

¹ Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A.NeuchâtelSwitzerland
² Altria Client Services LLCRichmondUSA

Human organotypic buccal and small airway cultures were exposed in two independent exposure systems (Vitrocell® 24/48), one for 3R4F reference cigarette smoke and the other for e-cigarette aerosol exposures to summarize the exposure-induced impacts into four main cellular processes: the cell fate, cell proliferation, cell stress, and inflammatory process.

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c&en, Volume 96, Issue 43

The complexity of next-generation tobacco products has increased by a number of factors since FDA was given responsibility to regulate tobacco. Testing e-liquids with animals is not practical, economically and not that accurate. The Vitrocell system generates airborne materials from test products, such as smoke from reference cigarettes and vapor from e-cigarettes, in a manner that simulates how a person would puff. This artcile shows, how IIVS scientists use human donor tissues, obtained from organs, to create cell cultures and in vitro test systems.

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