Browsing Faculty of Natural Science by Subject "Emphysema"
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Does maternal nicotine exposure during gestation and lactation change the oxidant-antioxidant status of the lungs of the offsprings and is tomato juice protecting the lungs of the offsprings?
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Nicotine exposure to the fetus through tobacco smoking or nicotine replacement therapy during the whole period of gestation and lactation causes diverse effects on fetal and neonatal lung development, integrity and maturation ... -
The effect of maternal nicotine exposure on rat lung tissue morphology. ' a light and electron microscopic study
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)The infants of women who smoke during pregnancy have a lower birth mass than those born of women who abstain. Animal studies reveal that reduced growth due to maternal nicotine exposure during gestation is accompanied by ... -
The effect of maternal nicotine exposure on the quantity and quality of neonatal rat lung connective tissue
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)The infants of smoking mothers (compared to non-smoking mothers) have been shown to have a lower birth mass, a lower brain mass, an increased perinatal mortality rate as well as a predisposition to respiratory abnormalities ... -
Premature aging of the lungs of the offspring induced by maternal nicotine exposure during gestation and lactation: protective effects of tomato juice
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)exposed to nicotine through the blood and the milk of the mother. Nicotine is thus expected to interact with the developing fetus and the offspring of mothers who smoke or use NRT for smoking cessation, resulting in the ...