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ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2020

Comparative Study on Pulmonary Toxicity in Mice Induced by Exposure to Unflavoured and Apple- and Strawberry-Flavoured Tobacco Waterpipe Smoke.

Abderrahim Nemmar, Suhail Al-Salam, Sumaya Beegam, Priya Yuvaraju, Badreldin H Ali

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Article in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Unsubstantiated Claims by the Hookah Tobacco Industry to Exempt Flavored Hookah Tobacco Products From Flavor Bans.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  4. Toxicity of waterpipe tobacco smoking: the role of flavors, sweeteners, humectants, and charcoal.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024
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  8. Public Perceptions of Flavored Waterpipe Smoking on Twitter.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abderrahim NemmarDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0699-1015
Suhail Al-SalamDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0109-5964
Sumaya BeegamDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAE.
Priya YuvarajuDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAE.
Badreldin H AliDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 35, Muscat 123, Al-Khoud, Oman.
United Arab Emirates University · AESultan Qaboos University · OM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of flavoured tobacco products in waterpipe smoking (WPS) has increased its attractiveness and consumption. Nonetheless, the influence of flavourings on pulmonary toxicity caused by WPS remains unclear. Here, the pulmonary toxicity induced by plain (P)-WPS, apple-flavoured (AF)-WPS, and strawberry-flavoured (SF)-WPS (30 minutes/day, 5 days/week for 1 month) was investigated in mice. Control mice were exposed to air. Exposure to P-WPS or AF-WPS or SF-WPS induced a dose-dependent increase of airway hyperreactivity to methacholine. The histological evaluation of the lungs in all the WPS groups revealed the presence focal areas of dilated alveolar spaces and foci of widening of interalveolar spaces with inflammatory cells. In the lung, the activity of neutrophil elastase and myeloperoxidase and the concentrations of tumor necrosis factor-

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AnimalsCaspase 3CatalaseDisease Models, AnimalFlavoring AgentsFragariaHumansInterleukin-6MalusMiceNF-kappa BOxidative StressPneumoniaSignal TransductionTobacco ProductsTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaCaspase 3CatalaseFlavoring AgentsInterleukin-6NF-kappa BTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID32025277
PMCPMC6983288
OpenAlexW2999673656

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