Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines Recent Advances | Roger O. McClellan |

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Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines Recent Advances

ABSTRACT

This remarkable book provides updates on various aspects of tobacco - its chemical and biological nature, and its physiological effects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

Formation and Analysis of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines

chapter 3|9 pages

Synthesis of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines and Their Metabolites and Results of Related Bioassays

chapter 4|13 pages

Endogenous Formation of Nitrosamines and Oxidative DNA-Damaging Agents in Tobacco Users

chapter 5|19 pages

Recent Studies on Mechanisms of Bioactivation and Detoxification of 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-Pyridyl)-1-Butanone (NNK), A Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen

chapter 6|16 pages

Epidemiology of Cancer by Tobacco Products and the Significance of TSNA

chapter 7|13 pages

The Biological Significance of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines: Smoking and Adenocarcinoma of the Lung

chapter 8|37 pages

Comparative Carcinogenicity, Metabolism, Mutagenicity, and DNA Binding of 7H-Dibenzo[c,g]carhazole and Dibenz[a,j]acridine

chapter 9|3 pages

Concluding Remarks