Table 1.
Effect of E-Cigarette Liquids and Nicotine on Cytotoxicity of Oral Epithelial Cell Lines
| E-Liquid a | Cell Lines |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOE1A |
MOE1B |
MSK1 |
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| (–) | (+) | (–) | (+) | (–) | (+) | |
| (Maximum cytotoxicity, %) | ||||||
| Unflavored | 17.5 | 0.0 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| Arctic Blast | 15.2 | 11.7 | 15.5 | 6.0 | 13.7 | 16.8 |
| Blue Pucker | 0.0 | 15.6 | 3.6 | 28.0 | 0.3 | 26.0 |
| Jamestown | 14.5 | 28.1 | 2.6 | 15.0 | 15.5 | 28.3 |
| Love Potion | 21.4 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 33.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 |
| Mardi Gras | 9.3 | 20.1 | 13.2 | 18.9 | 8.6 | 6.5 |
| Midnight Splash | 8.6 | 8.6 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| Port Royale | 5.5 | 4.1 | 10.0 | 13.3 | 4.4 | 18.3 |
| Tobacco Row | 3.6 | 10.1 | 36.0 | 27.4 | 0.0 | 14.7 |
| Tortuga | 8.5 | 5.7 | 15.2 | 0.0 | 10.4 | 6.5 |
| Uptown | 2.6 | 10.4 | 9.7 | 22.7 | 16.0 | 8.9 |
| Kentucky reference cigarette 3R4F | 72.6 | 65.1 | 76.0 | |||
Abbreviations: (–), no nicotine; (+), nicotine.
a
All E-liquids contain 70%PG/30%VG.