Abstract:
In order to assess the individual and synergic cytotoxicities of harmful components in cigarette smoke, bronchus epithelia, BEASe-2B, were used as target cells and exposed to the five harmful components in cigarette smoke, NNK, NH
3, BaP, phenol and crotonaldehyde, individually and in pairs, the survival rates of the cells after 24-hour exposure were tested by MTT assay, average LC
50 of the cells was calculated, and the synergic cytotoxicities were evaluated with isobolograms. The results showed that:1) LC
50 of NNK, NH
3, BaP, phenol, crotonaldehyde, NNK+NH
3, NNK+BaP, NNK+phenol, NNK+crotonaldehyde, NH
3+BaP, NH
3+phenol, NH
3+crotonaldehyde, BaP+phenol, BaP+crotonaldehyde and phenol+crotonaldehyde was 87.2, 395.5, 5.4, 61.9, 6.9, 46.2, 10.9, 14.1, 30.4, 76.4, 86.1, 39.0, 6.1, 1.1 and 22.1 mg/L, respectively. It suggested that there existed potent synergism between NNK and NH
3, NNK and BaP, NNK and phenol, BaP and phenol, BaP and crotonaldehyde, NH
3 and crotonaldehyde, while no synergism between NNK and crotonaldehyde, BaP and NH
3, phenol and NH
3, phenol and crotonaldehyde in cytotoxicity.