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Environmental tobacco smoke is just as damaging to DNA as mainstream smoke.

This study demonstrates the ability of tar isolated from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) to nick DNA in mammalian cells. Solutions of ETS tar behave similarly to aqueous solutions of cigarette tar from mainstream smoke. Both solutions contain the tar semiquinone radical, and this radical associate...

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Autores principales: Bermúdez, E, Stone, K, Carter, K M, Pryor, W A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9644196