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In vitro Cell Culture Model for Toxic Inhaled Chemical Testing
Published on: May 8, 2014
Protocol for constructing an accessible exposure chamber for in vitro and in vivo modeling of airway environmental
Abdo Durra1, Caroline Cherry2, Coline Luo3
1UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute, Mattel Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Abstract:
Exposure systems to study the effects of environmental exposures can be costly to purchase and difficult to use. Here, we present an accessible and cost-effective approach to building an exposure chamber in the lab. We describe steps for constructing the exposure system and writing the code to run it and simple instructions for experiments using the system. The exposure chamber can be adapted to expose airway cells or lab mice to combustible cigarette smoke, electronic cigarette vapors, or woodfire smoke. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Durra et al.1.
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