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Xenobiotics in chemical carcinogenesis
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ISBN: 0323905609 0323906818 9780323906814 9780323905602 Year: 2022 Publisher: London, UK Academic Press

Chemical carcinogenesis
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ISBN: 0306411113 1468443364 1468443348 Year: 1982 Volume: vol 52 Publisher: New York London Plenum Press


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Protein Phosphorylation
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ISBN: 9535136267 9535136259 9535145967 Year: 2017 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Protein phosphorylation reactions are carried out in a cell by protein kinases, which predominantly use ATP as a phosphate donor that is transferred and covalently bound to an amino acid on a substrate protein. Protein phosphorylation was discovered in 1954 by Edmond Fischer who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1992 with Edwin Krebs. There are so many kinases that one was called ""Just Another Kinase"" for JAK kinase. Their counterpart is protein phosphatases that remove phosphates from phosphorylated proteins. Kinases and phosphatases act as switches in the cell that activates or inactivates protein functions. These reactions are reversible; the cell can quickly react to a situation but can then go back to its initial state.

The carcinogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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ISBN: 1281866997 9786611866990 1860949339 9781860949333 9781281866998 1860944175 9781860944178 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,

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This book provides an overview on the molecular mode of action of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are by-products arising from incomplete combustion of organic matter that are frequently released into our environment, and thus are ubiquitously detectable. Many PAHs are strong carcinogens in rodent bioassays and have been linked to increased incidences of various types of cancer in humans. The present book covers all aspects of PAH-induced carcinogenesis; it is a collection of articles written by some of the most recognizable PAH researchers, reviewing the present kno


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Essential and Non-essential Metals : Carcinogenesis, Prevention and Cancer Therapeutics
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ISBN: 3319554484 3319554468 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana,

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This book aims to present current state of understanding of the role of metals in human health and disease. As it will be difficult to cover all of the metals, about two scores of them, the authors will instead provide a detailed analysis of a select set of essential (Calcium, Magnesium, Selenium, Iron, copper and Zinc) and non-essential metals (Nickel, Chromium, Cadmium and Arsenic, Tungsten and Asbestos). Each chapter will have a dedicated section focusing on the binary role that some of these metals play, their carcinogenic and cancer therapeutics, by integrating epidemiological, experimental evidence with special emphasis and focus on molecular mechanisms involved in these processes. The biological analysis will also include emerging lines of evidence such as micro RNAS, kinase families, receptors, endoplasmic, mitochondrial players and epigenetics. As part of integrating the human, experimental and mechanistic data, as well as a detailed analysis into the modes of action for different cancer outcomes will be discussed in each chapter wherever deemed feasible. These approaches are ones in which no other book in this area has attempted to do.


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The understanding, prevention and control of human cancer : the historic work and lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller
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ISBN: 9004286802 9789004286801 9789004286795 9004286799 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death—and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.


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Chemical Carcinogenesis
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ISBN: 1617379948 9786613087287 1283087286 1617379956 Year: 2011 Publisher: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana,

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This monograph provides a contemporary account of advances in chemical carcinogenesis. It promotes the view that it is alteration of the DNA by endogenous and exogenous carcinogens that ultimately leads to sporadic mutations which are a root cause of many human cancers. It deals with the metabolic activation of common classes of chemical carcinogens (tobacco carcinogens, heterocyclic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and their detoxication. It describes the DNA-adducts that ensue and their repair mechanisms. It covers advances in structural-biology that provide a glimpse of both the DNA-repair process and the by-pass of DNA-lesions and how this informs the mutational code.  It also deals with the concepts of chemoprevention and biomarkers for biomonitoring human exposure. Many contemporary texts on the biology of cancer now focus almost exclusively on the molecular and cell biology of the disease and do not cover the initiating (DNA damaging events) of chemical carcinogenesis in depth. It is with this perceived gap-in knowledge that world experts in their particular fields have contributed to this monograph. This monograph will be an important reference re-source for students in training, postdoctoral scientists, and senior scientists knowledgeable in the field.

Microsomes, drug oxidations, and chemical carcinogenesis
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ISBN: 0121877019 0121877027 0323144098 1299452396 0323143873 1299454151 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Academic press

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