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Requirement of arsenic biomethylation for oxidative DNA damage.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 16 Dec 2009
Kojima Chikara, Ramirez Dario C, Tokar Erik J, Himeno Seiichiro, Drobná Zuzana, Stýblo Miroslav, Mason Ronald P, Waalkes Michael P
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BACKGROUND: Inorganic arsenic is an environmental carcinogen that may act through multiple mechanisms including formation of methylated derivatives in vivo. Sodium arsenite (up to 5.0 microM) renders arsenic methylation-competent TRL1215 rat liver epithelial cells tumorigenic in nude mice at 18 w...
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