Article
Glucuronidation and susceptibility to chemical carcinogenesis.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Mar 2004
Wallig Matthew A
Abstract excerpt
The highlighted article in this issue of Toxicological Sciences, written by Zhuohan Hu and Peter Wells, addresses a subject that has received increasing scrutiny the past decade and a half--interindividual variation in detoxification enzyme activity as it relates to toxicity and cancer. Hu and Wells in their simple yet elegant study report variations in glucuronidation among normal individuals and provide data...
Topics
- Biotransformation
- Carcinogens
- Genotype
- Glucuronides
- Glucuronosyltransferase
- Neoplasms
- Polymorphism, Genetic
