Reply to Queimado et al.: E-cigarettes induce DNA damage and inhibit DNA repair in mice and human cells

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Moon-Shong Tang. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018.

. 2018 Jun 12;115(24):E5439.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807971115. Epub 2018 May 25.

¹ Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY 10987 moon-shong.tang@nyumc.org.

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The author declares no conflict of interest.

E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells.
Lee HW, Park SH, Weng MW, Wang HT, Huang WC, Lepor H, Wu XR, Chen LC, Tang MS. Lee HW, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Feb 13;115(7):E1560-E1569. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718185115. Epub 2018 Jan 29. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 29378943 Free PMC article.
Electronic cigarette aerosols induce DNA damage and reduce DNA repair: Consistency across species.
Queimado L, Wagener T, Ganapathy V. Queimado L, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jun 12;115(24):E5437-E5438. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807411115. Epub 2018 May 25. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 29802233 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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