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Toxicity Mechanisms of Cigarette Smoke on Mouse Fetus Mitochondria

Maternal smoking has been recognized as a common cause of low birth weight, preterm birth and the decrease of gestational age period. Unfortunately, there is an increasing interest within public especially woman in Iran in the tobacco products consumption. On the other hand, the deleterious effect of maternal smoking on human fetus in pregnancy period especially in the first trimester encourage...

Effects of Cigarette Smoke

Some ciliostatic components ofcigarette smoke were studied as inhibitors of in vitro chemotaxis of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). In comparison to their concentration in an inhibitory level of cigarette smoke, the unsaturated aldehydes acrolein and crotonaldehyde were the most potent inhibitors, whereas nicotine, cyanide, acetaldehyde, and furfural were the next strongest inhibitors...

Cigarette Smoke and Cancer

1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Cancer Research Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2196, USA 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3Prostate Cancer/Genitourologic Program, The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns H...

Analyzing Cigarette Smoke

Cigarette Smoke Toxicology

The inhalation toxicity of tobacco smoke has become one of the major public health problems of the 20th century. The chemical complexity of tobacco smoke confounds the task of identifying its toxic constituents. Tobacco smoke is comprised of thousands of chemical components arising primarily from volatilization and pyrolysis of the tobacco leaf (Stedman 1968; Green 1977). The chemical gamut run...