Resveratrol, a natural aryl hydrocarbon
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Ariel Revel; Hila Raanani; Edward Younglai; Jing Xu; Ian Rogers; Robin Han; Jean
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is an agonistic ligand for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and a major environmental carcinogen implicated in the aetiology of lung cancer through the induction of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxidation (BPDE) and BPDE-DNA adducts. Because BaP metabolization requires cytochrome P-4