Article
CYP2E1 genotyping in renal cell/urothelial cancer patients in comparison with control populations.
International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Sept 1998
Farker K, Lehmann M H, Kästner R, Hoffmann A, Janitzky V, Schubert J, Matz U, Hofmann W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Genetic polymorphisms in enzymes involved in carcinogen metabolism have been found to influence susceptibility to cancer. Ethanol-inducible CYP2E1 is an enzyme of major toxicological interest because it metabolizes several drugs, precarcinogens, and solvents to reactive metabolites. In...
Topics
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1
- Genotype
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Risk Factors
- Urologic Neoplasms
- Urothelium
