Pycnogenol® in cigarette filters scavenges free radicals and reduces mutagenicity and toxicity of tobacco smoke in vivo

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 215-224

  Zhang, Deliang ^a   Tao, Yi ^a   Gao, Juntao ^a   Zhang, Chunai ^a   Wan, Sujun ^a   Chen, Yuxia ^a   Huang, Xiazhen ^a   Sun, Xiayou ^a   Duan, Shaojin ^a   Schönlau, Frank ^b   Rohdewald, Peter ^b   Zhao, Baolu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

cigarettes; filters; free radicals; mutagenicity; Pycnogenol

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; FREE RADICAL; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; MUTAGENIC AGENT; PYCNOGENOLS; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOFLAVONOID; CIGARETTE SMOKE; HETEROCYCLIC AMINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYCNOGENOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT; ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; DILUTION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FILTER; HEALTH HAZARD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; SMOKING; VOLATILIZATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; FLAVONOIDS; FREE RADICALS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 18544401852     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0748233702th145oa     Document Type: Article

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