Inhibition of mutagenic PhIP formation b
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Ka-Wing Cheng; Chi Chun Wong; Jianfei Chao; Clive Lo; Feng Chen; Ivan K. Chu; Ch
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Chemical model investigation showed that both epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and its peracetate, which has all the hydroxyl groups acetylated, effectively reduced the formation of 2βaminoβ1βmethylβ6βphenylimidazo[4,5β__b__]pyridine (PhIP), the most abundant mutagenic heterocyclic amine