Impact of smoking habits on the state of chromatin and morphology of buccal epithelial cells among medical students
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2017-01
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Volkova, O.
Волкова, Ольга Сергеевна
Волкова, Ольга Сергіївна
Рябоконь, Євген Миколайович
Ryabokon, E.
Рябоконь, Евгений Николаевич
Magda, I.
Shckorbatov, Y.
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Abstract
The cells of buccal epithelium were investigated in
groups of smoking and non-smoking students. Cell
samples were collected by scraping with blunt sterile
spatula, stained with orcein and photographed. The
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smoking of cigarettes and hookah induces significant
decrease in nuclear and cell perimeter and cell area in
cells of buccal epithelium. Smoking of hookah induces,
besides, the heterochromatization in cell nuclei and the
decrease of nuclear area. The data obtained indicate
stress reaction in cells (heterochromatinization) and
apoptosis-related changes in cells (decrease of nuclear
and cell perimeter and cell area). These data show unfavorable
effects of smoking cigarettes and even more
harmful effect of hookah smoking.
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cell nucleus, heterochromatin, cell area, cell perimeter
Citation
Impact of smoking habits on the state of chromatin and morphology of buccal epithelial cells among medical students / O. Volkova, E. Ryabokon, I. Magda, Y. Shckorbatov // Georgian Medical News. – 2017. – № 1 (262). – P. 111–115.