Pilipenko V

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 1999-2015
2015
N-acetyltransferase 1 polymorphism increases cotinine levels in Caucasian children exposed to secondhand smoke: the CCAAPS birth cohort.
The pharmacogenomics journal ·doi:10.1038/tpj.2014.44

Cotinine is a proxy for secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. Genetic variation along nicotine and cotinine metabolic pathways may alter the internal cotinine dose, leading to misinterpretations of exposure-health outcome associations. Caucasian…

1999
Bile salts: natural detergents for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy ·doi:10.1128/aac.43.4.745

The development of new, safe, topical microbicides for intravaginal use for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases is imperative. Previous studies have suggested that bile salts may inhibit human immunodeficiency virus infection; h…