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Saturday May 16, 2020
AUTHORS:
Pedro Galvan, Guzal Abdul Shukur, Hanna Caylor, Suman Dhungana, Patrick Mark, and Julia Molina
FACULTY: Dr. Thomas Pirtle
DEPARTMENT: Biology
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been popularly used as a replacement of the smoking traditional cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes and personal vaporizers have become popular among young adults, as well as adults who are trying to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. Although electronic cigarettes are viewed as a safe alternative, the health risks and effects of inhaling these vapors are unknown. We studied the impacts of electronic cigarette flavors on cardiac development in quail embryos. We hypothesize that exposure to e-cigarette flavorings in the embryo of quail would have significant decrease in the mass of its heart. Using a windowing method, we treated each embryo with vaporized or un-vaporized electronic cigarette vaporizer flavorings on day 2 of embryonic development. We dissected the heart of each embryo in each treatment group on day 14. We also had a group of untreated embryos as a control. The mass of the heart for each embryo was measured. The data showed a significantly smaller heart mass in some of the un-vaped treatment groups. However, there was not a significant difference in heart mass among the groups treated with vaped treatment groups.
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