1964 Volume 83 Issue 3 Pages 245-252
Deterious effect of nicotine on cells of rabbits' aortic and myocardial cells in tissue cultures was reported by Kokubu and Pollak (1962). Koide and Pollak (1963) found cigarette smoke condensate more damaging than nicotine to rabbits' cardiovascular cells in vitro.
The present study elucidates the direct action of cigarette smoke on aortic and mycoardial cells in cultures of explants from normo- and hypercholesteremic rabbits.