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Reducing toxic reactive carbonyl species in e-cigarette emissions : testing a harm-reduction strategy based on dicarbonyl trapping. / de Falco, Bruna; Petridis, Antonios; Paramasivan, Poornima; Troise, Antonio Dario; Scaloni, Andrea; Deeni, Yusuf; Stephens, W. Edryd; Fiore, Alberto.

In: RSC Advances, Vol. 10, No. 36, 05.06.2020, p. 21535-21544.

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de Falco, B, Petridis, A, Paramasivan, P, Troise, AD, Scaloni, A, Deeni, Y, Stephens, WE & Fiore, A 2020, 'Reducing toxic reactive carbonyl species in e-cigarette emissions: testing a harm-reduction strategy based on dicarbonyl trapping', RSC Advances, vol. 10, no. 36, pp. 21535-21544. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA02138E

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de Falco, B., Petridis, A., Paramasivan, P., Troise, A. D., Scaloni, A., Deeni, Y., Stephens, W. E., & Fiore, A. (2020). Reducing toxic reactive carbonyl species in e-cigarette emissions: testing a harm-reduction strategy based on dicarbonyl trapping. RSC Advances, 10(36), 21535-21544. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA02138E

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de Falco B, Petridis A, Paramasivan P, Troise AD, Scaloni A, Deeni Y et al. Reducing toxic reactive carbonyl species in e-cigarette emissions: testing a harm-reduction strategy based on dicarbonyl trapping. RSC Advances. 2020 Jun 5;10(36):21535-21544. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA02138E

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de Falco, Bruna ; Petridis, Antonios ; Paramasivan, Poornima ; Troise, Antonio Dario ; Scaloni, Andrea ; Deeni, Yusuf ; Stephens, W. Edryd ; Fiore, Alberto. / Reducing toxic reactive carbonyl species in e-cigarette emissions : testing a harm-reduction strategy based on dicarbonyl trapping. In: RSC Advances. 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 36. pp. 21535-21544.

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abstract = "Reducing the concentration of reactive carbonyl species (RCS) in e-cigarette emissions represents a major goal to control their potentially harmful effects. Here, we adopted a novel strategy of trapping carbonyls present in e-cigarette emissions by adding polyphenols in e-liquid formulations. Our work showed that the addition of gallic acid, hydroxytyrosol and epigallocatechin gallate reduced the levels of carbonyls formed in the aerosols of vaped e-cigarettes, including formaldehyde, methylglyoxal and glyoxal. Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry analysis highlighted the formation of covalent adducts between aromatic rings and dicarbonyls in both e-liquids and vaped samples, suggesting that dicarbonyls were formed in the e-liquids as degradation products of propylene glycol and glycerol before vaping. Short-term cytotoxic analysis on two lung cellular models showed that dicarbonyl-polyphenol adducts are not cytotoxic, even though carbonyl trapping did not improve cell viability. Our work sheds lights on the ability of polyphenols to trap RCS in high carbonyl e-cigarette emissions, suggesting their potential value in commercial e-liquid formulations.",
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AU - Petridis, Antonios

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AU - Troise, Antonio Dario

AU - Scaloni, Andrea

AU - Deeni, Yusuf

AU - Stephens, W. Edryd

AU - Fiore, Alberto

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