Another Warning Sign: High Nicotine Content in Electronic Cigarettes Disrupts Mucociliary Clearance, the Essential Defense Mechanism of the Lung.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Critical Gaps in the Scientific Basis for Electronic Cigarette Regulation: An American College of Chest Physicians Research Statement.Chest · 2026
   Guideline
2. Effect of Electronic Cigarette Vapour Exposure on CaLung · 2025
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3. Insights Into Electronic-Cigarette Perspectives: Smokers' Knowledge Attitudes and Practices at Hamad Medical Corporation, 2020.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2025
   Article
4. Downregulation of Stem-Loop Binding Protein by Nicotine via α7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Its Role in Nicotine-Induced Cell Transformation.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2022
   Article
5. Nicotine Exerts Cytotoxic Effects in a Panel of Healthy Cell Lines and Strong Irritating Potential on Blood Vessels.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
   Article
6. Electronic Cigarettes and Their Impact on Allergic Respiratory Diseases: A Work Group Report of the AAAAI Environmental Exposures and Respiratory Health Committee.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2021
   Article
7. An update on controversies in e-cigarettes.Paediatric respiratory reviews · 2020
   Review
8. COVID's Razor: RAS Imbalance, the Common Denominator Across Disparate, Unexpected Aspects of COVID-19.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2020
   Review
9. Journal Club-Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping as a Harm Reduction Alternative: Really?Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2019
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Electronic Cigarette Vapor with Nicotine Causes Airway Mucociliary Dysfunction Preferentially via TRPA1 Receptors.2019

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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