AHR in the intestinal microenvironment: safeguarding barrier function

B Stockinger, K Shah, E Wincent - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mammalian aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that
belongs to the basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH)–PAS family of transcription factors, which are …

Toxicities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for aquatic animals

M Honda, N Suzuki - International journal of environmental research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic compounds that are widely distributed
in the air, water, and soil. Recently, the amount of PAHs derived from fuels and from …

Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the water environment: A review on toxicity, microbial biodegradation, systematic biological advancements, and environmental …

M Vijayanand, A Ramakrishnan, R Subramanian… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered a major class of organic
contaminants or pollutants, which are poisonous, mutagenic, genotoxic, and/or …

Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): Implications for human lung cancer

R Stading, G Gastelum, C Chu, W Jiang… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lung cancer has the second highest incidence and highest mortality compared to all other
cancers. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules belong to a class of compounds …

[HTML][HTML] A compendium of mutational signatures of environmental agents

JE Kucab, X Zou, S Morganella, M Joel, AS Nanda… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Whole-genome-sequencing (WGS) of human tumors has revealed distinct
mutation patterns that hint at the causative origins of cancer. We examined mutational …

Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden

ZR Chalmers, CF Connelly, D Fabrizio, L Gay, SM Ali… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background High tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker of sensitivity to
immune checkpoint inhibitors and has been shown to be more significantly associated with …

Why are there hotspot mutations in the TP53 gene in human cancers?

EH Baugh, H Ke, AJ Levine, RA Bonneau… - Cell Death & …, 2018 - nature.com
The p53 gene contains homozygous mutations in~ 50–60% of human cancers. About 90%
of these mutations encode missense mutant proteins that span~ 190 different codons …

Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, YS Ju, K Haase, P Van Loo… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Tobacco smoking increases the risk of at least 17 classes of human cancer. We analyzed
somatic mutations and DNA methylation in 5243 cancers of types for which tobacco smoking …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: from metabolism to lung cancer

B Moorthy, C Chu, DJ Carlin - Toxicological Sciences, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Excessive exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) often results in lung cancer,
a disease with the highest cancer mortality in the United States. After entry into the lung …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases

FW Booth, CK Roberts, MJ Laye - Comprehensive physiology, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic diseases are major killers in the modern era. Physical inactivity is a primary cause
of most chronic diseases. The initial third of the article considers: activity and prevention …