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Just time to go. >> reporter: late today, authorities said 28 of the 212 cars derailed, including four empty tankers with residual amounts of diesel exhaust fluid and common industrial products. but they say no hazardous materials, during saturday night's accident, spilled. >> looking at the data from hazmat and ohio epa, we're loking at clean air, clean soil, and clean water for our residents. >> reporter: on "this week," ohio democratic senator sherrod brown said he's not satisfied with the rail company's response. >> this train was over 200 cars, which is 50 more cars than the east palestin...

This. >> and now ww we go to ohio fore latest in ohio. and now what residents are hearing from the state and local officials. >> elizabeth, walk us through the new data. >> right, kate. so what scholars the researchers did at carnegie mellon did is to look at the chemicals that the epa is measuring in air. they said for nine of them the levels were higher than they should be, and they were concerned that there could possibly be risks to people living in the area. they focused on a chemical called acrolein used to control rodents and plants and other things. it is toxic, and they were concerned...

Back to you, guys. >> state and local officials, understand they have a lot of work to build that trust with the folks of east palestine, thank you so much. some independent researchers keeping tabs on the 50 chemicals released by the train derailment. >> east palestine saying there are concerns specifically for nine of those chemicals. cnn's chief medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to explain. what did they find? >> victor and bianna, these researchers at texas a&m and they've looked at the chemicals that the epa was monitoring for and there are nine in particular that they say w...

Are emissions just unpleasant smells or causing diseases like asthma or cancer?

Patients undergoing chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide experience cystitis due to excretion of a toxic metabolite, acrolein. Cystitis, an inflammation of the bladder, is associated with damage to the integrity of the urothelial barrier. The purinergic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) is increasingly recognized for its role in inflammation and cell death. P2X7R is expressed abundantly on the bladder urothelium. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of P2X7R in acrolein-induced inflammatory damage in primary cultured porcine bladder urothelial cells. Confluent urothelial cells in culture were t...