1st Edition

Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines Recent Advances

By Roger O. McClellan Copyright 1996
140 Pages
by CRC Press

140 Pages
by CRC Press

85 Pages
by CRC Press

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

1. Introduction 2. Formation and Analysis of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines 3. Synthesis of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines and Their Metabolites and Results of Related Bioassays 4. Endogenous Formation of Nitrosamines and Oxidative DNA-Damaging Agents in Tobacco Users 5. Recent Studies on Mechanisms of Bioactivation and Detoxification of 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-Pyridyl)-1-Butanone (NNK), A Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen 6. Epidemiology of Cancer by Tobacco Products and the Significance of TSNA 7. The Biological Significance of Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines: Smoking and Adenocarcinoma of the Lung 8. Comparative Carcinogenicity, Metabolism, Mutagenicity, and DNA Binding of 7H-Dibenzo[c,g]carhazole and Dibenz[a,j]acridine 9. Concluding Remarks

Biography

McClellan, Roger O.