Research Article

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

Figure 1

Airway hyperresponsiveness. The airway resistance (), after increasing concentrations of methacholine (MCh; 0–40 mg/ml), was measured via the forced oscillation technique (flexiVent), at the end of a one-month exposure period to either air (control; ) or plain (P-) waterpipe smoke (WPS; ) or apple-flavoured (AF-) WPS () or strawberry-flavoured (SF-) WPS (). Dose-response relationship of total respiratory system resistance to increasing doses of MCh (a). From the resistance MCh dose-response curve in (a), an index of airway responsiveness was calculated as the slope of the linear regression using 0–40 mg/ml concentrations (b). Data are expressed as .
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