Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed during incomplete combustion.
Domestic wood burning and road traffic are the major sources of PAHs in Sweden. In …

How mitochondria process DNA damage and whether a change in the steady-state level of
mitochondrial DNA damage (mtDNA) contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction are questions …

Previous studies have identified allelic variants of the human glutathione transferase (GST)
Pi gene and showed that the two different encoded proteins with isoleucine (GSTP1-1/I-105) …

The first occupation-associated cancers to be recognized were the sooty warts (cancers of
the scrotum) suffered by chimney sweeps in 18th century England. In the 19th century, high …

Environmental and dietary carcinogens such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
have been intensively studied for decades. Although the genotoxicity of these compounds is …

DNA adducts have been investigated extensively during the past decade. This research has
been advanced, in part, by the development of ultrasensitive analytical methods, such as …

Despite the increasing use of mussels in environmental monitoring and ecotoxicological
studies, their genomes and gene functions have not been thoroughly explored. Several …

Abstract Dibenzo [a, l] pyrene (DB [a, l] P), an environmental polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon, is the most potent carcinogen ever tested in mouse skin and rat mammary …

Of the carcinogens to which humans are most frequently exposed, the polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon benzo [a] pyrene (BP) is one of the most ubiquitous. BP is a byproduct of grilled …

Nucleotide incorporation fidelity, mismatch extension, and translesion DNA synthesis
efficiencies were determined using SOS-induced Escherichia coli DNA polymerases (pol) II …