In human respiratory epithelial cells, in vitro exposure to third-hand smoke for 3 h resulted in changes in mitochondrial activity, which led to an adaptive activation of survival mechanisms, such as ATP synthesis and increased oxidative phosphorylation (Pozuelos et al., 2019)
Furthermore, IL-6 and other cytokines are able to activate the JAK2/JAK2-STAT3/STAT3 pathway in fibroblasts and endothelial cells, which facilitates the process of endothelial damage, atheroma formation and atherosclerosis
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