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Cigarette Smoke Exposure in Mice using a Whole-Body Inhalation System
Published on: October 22, 2020
Dose-responsive increase in sister-chromatid exchanges in bone-marrow cells of mice exposed nose-only to whole
Abstract:
The effect of whole cigarette smoke exposure on bone-marrow sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was studied in B6C3F1 mice. Animals were exposed nose-only to 10% (v/v) cigarette smoke 5 days/week for 2 weeks. Four dose levels of cigarette smoke (1, 4, 9 and 18 exposures/day) were studied using 2 cigarette types, Kentucky reference 3A1 (3A1) and American Blend (AB). A single exposure represented approximately 1 cigarette. A dose-dependent increase in SCEs was observed for both the 3A1 and AB cigarettes at dose levels which had no effect on bone-marrow cell-replication kinetics. These findings represent the first demonstration of a dose-responsive increase in cigarette smoke-induced SCEs in a rodent model system.
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