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Human precision-cut lung slices as a screening tool: increased throughput, cryopreservation, and detection of DNA adducts for next generation tobacco product evaluation
BEHRSING H.P.(1); DESAI P.(1); AMIN K.(2); BALBO S.(3); HECHT S.S.(2); SHEEHAN D.(1); CASTRO N.(1); ALLEN D.(4)
(1) Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.; (2) University of Minnesota, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.; (3) University of Minnesota, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.; (4) Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc., Morrisville, NC, U.S.A.
Human-relevant, in vitro/ex vivo assays are considered an ethical and economically viable manner by which to screen the many chemicals requiring hazard assessment, such as next generation tobacco product (NGTP) ingredients. Human precision-cut lung...