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Aqueous extracts of cigarette tar containing the tar free radical cause DNA nicks in mammalian cells.

The ability of aqueous extracts of cigarette tar to nick DNA was investigated using viable mammalian cells. Tar extracts contain a radical with a stable electron spin resonance (ESR) signal at g = 2.0036 characteristic of a semiquinone. The association of the tar component that carries the ESR signa...

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Autores principales: Stone, K K, Bermúdez, E, Pryor, W A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7705294