The risk that both tobacco and electronic cigarettes can pose to regular smokers’ health has been well documented, but a new UCLA study illustrates just how quickly vaping can affect the cells of even healthy younger non-smokers.
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Healthy airways (left) show well-defined layers of ciliated cells (green) and basal stem cells (red). In airways affected by cystic fibrosis (right), the layers are disrupted, and scientists identified a transitioning cell type that combines properties of both stem cells and ciliated cells (red and green in the same cell).
A team of researchers from UCLA, Cedars-Sinai and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has developed a first-of-its-kind molecular catalog of cells in healthy lungs and the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
The catalog, described today in the journal Nature Medicine, reveals new subtypes of cells and illustrates how the disease changes the cellular makeup of the airways. The findings could help scientists in their search for specific cell types that represent prime targets for genetic and cell therapies for cystic fibrosis.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ This year 480,000 Americans will die from tobacco induced disease. Though this number is still astronomical, public health has made steady progress each year in reducing the toll. Sadly, over the last few years public health advocates have watched with horror as the flavored e-cigarette epidemic exploded and lured a new generation of teenagers into tobacco addiction. Cities, counties, and states have moved to enact legislation to restrict the sale of flavored nicotine products. Despite the science being quite clear that flavored tobacco products entice and hook new smokers, menthol and hookah products are sometimes, quite inexplicably, given exemptions by some municipalities.