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Importance of CYP1A1 polymorphism and its transcriptional regulation in ovarian and endometrial cancer.
Ginekologia polska - 1 Dec 2011
Mrozikiewicz Przemysław M, Grześkowiak Edmund, Seremak-Mrozikiewicz Agnieszka, Bogacz Anna, Barlik Magdalena, Semczuk Andrzej, Bartkowiak-Wieczorek Joann, Drews Krzysztof
Abstract excerpt
Human cytochrome P450 1A 1 is one of the most important enzymes participating in human carcinogenesis because it metabolites several procarcinogens to active carcinogenic metabolites. Additionally enzymes of CYP450 family play an important role in estrogenes catabolization (17-beta-estradiol and estron) to intermediate products (2-, 4-hydroxyestradiol and 2-, 4-hydroxyestrone) including CYP1A1 that catalyses...
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