Acute Outcomes of Cigarette Smoke and Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation in a Murine Model

Table 3

Immunoenzymatic assay and biochemical evaluation on pulmonary parenchyma.

	C	CS	EC	value
TNF-α (pg/mL)	92.86 ± 10.88	157.00 ± 21.40^a	128.50 ± 11.24
IL-17 (pg/mL)	177.20 ± 10.49	368.50 ± 38.05^a	282.30 ± 25.68^a
CCL5 (pg/mL)	157.80 ± 10.63	264.80 ± 34.52	343.60 ± 66.58^a
TBARS (nmol/mg protein)	0.93 ± 0.06	1.92 ± 0.23^a,c	1.23 ± 0.17
Protein carbonyl (nmol/mg protein)	3.68 ± 0.47	5.71 ± 0.62	7.24 ± 0.84^a
SOD(U/mg protein)	120.80 ± 4.76	72.59 ± 8.84^a,c	112.30 ± 2.82
CAT (U/mg protein)	2.94 ± 0.18	5.59 ± 0.48^a,c	3.50 ± 0.56

C: control; CS: cigarette smoke; EC: electronic cigarette. The letter (a) represents a significant difference compared to C; (c) represents a significant difference compared to EC. Data were expressed as mean ± SEM and were analyzed by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-test ().