Author: Mortimer L. MendelsohnPublisher: Wiley-Liss
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mutation and the Environment, Part C
Author: Mortimer L. MendelsohnPublisher: Wiley-Liss
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mutation and the Environment
Author: Environmental Health Risk
Author: Marcelo LarramendyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535124013
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book, Environmental Health Risk - Hazardous Factors to Living Species, is intended to provide a set of practical discussions and relevant tools for making risky decisions that require actions to reduce environmental health risk against environmental factors that may adversely impact human health or ecological balances. We aimed to compile information from diverse sources into a single volume to give some real examples extending concepts of those hazardous factors to living species that may stimulate new research ideas and trends in the relevant fields.
Mutation and the Environment
Author: Mortimer L. MendelsohnPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471567912
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Mutagens in Food
Author: Veikko HayatsuPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351083325
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book describes many different kinds of mutagens that are detected in food, and also discusses various ways to suppress their formation and activities. The mutagens discussed include those of natural origin, those caused by human manipulation of food (e.g., cooking and adding preservatives), and those formed after food has been consumed (e.g., nitrosamines). Other topics include mutagenesis and mutagen-formation inhibitors, contemporary mutagen detection methods, the fate of ingested mutagens, and risk assessments for mutagens as human carcinogens. The book emphasizes cooked-food mutagens, especially the heterocyclic amines, because of their potential as human carcinogens. Researchers and students concerned with mutagens in food will consider this book to be valuable additions to their reference libraries.
Mutation and the Environment, Part D
Author: Mortimer L. MendelsohnPublisher: Wiley-Liss
ISBN: 9780471567967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Author: Mutagens in Food
Author: Hikoya HayatsuPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849358777
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book describes many different kinds of mutagens that are detected in food, and also discusses various ways to suppress their formation and activities. The mutagens discussed include those of natural origin, those caused by human manipulation of food (e.g., cooking and adding preservatives), and those formed after food has been consumed (e.g., nitrosamines). Other topics include mutagenesis and mutagen-formation inhibitors, contemporary mutagen detection methods, the fate of ingested mutagens, and risk assessments for mutagens as human carcinogens. The book emphasizes cooked-food mutagens, especially the heterocyclic amines, because of their potential as human carcinogens. Researchers and students concerned with mutagens in food will consider this book to be valuable additions to their reference libraries.
Antimutagenesis and Anticarcinogenesis Mechanisms III
Author: Giorgio BronzettiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461529840
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Lifestyle, in any part of the world, is associated with the occurrence of major chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, and stroke; many distinct types of cancer; and adult onset diabetes (11,22,70,75). One important element of lifestyle is tobacco use, which appreciably increases the risk of a number of chronic diseases (21). Other lifestyle factors relate to nutritional traditions, alcohol use, and exercise (11,30,58,60,70,71). The underlying evidence is, in part, based on the evidence of specific diseases in relation to dietary habits in a given geographic region, as well as changes in such disease occurrences in migrant populations from a low risk to a high risk area, and vice versa (25,42). Populations that customarily consume fruits and vegetables and also whole grain cereal products generally have a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases and specific types of cancer than populations with a lower intake of such foods, everything else being equal (63). In the last few years, research has provided mechanistic explanations as to the reasons for the protective effects of specific foods. This paper will emphasize the mechanisms whereby cancer risks are reduced by dietary modification.
The Biology and Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers
Author: Guy R. NewellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461534682
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The papers contained in this volume were presented ati the Golden Jubilee Cancer Prevention Conference, "The Biology and Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers," sponsored by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, February 21-23, 1991. The purpose of the conference was to further the understanding of the biology, epidemiology, and prevention of aerodigestive tract cancers. Advances in under standing the biology of aerodigestive tract cancers have led to successful early chemoprevention trials. Chemopreventive agents in current use are capable 9f reversing premalignant lesions, as well as reducing the number of second primary cancers of the head and neck. These trials hold the promise that effective prevention methods for these cancers will be forthcoming in the foreseeable future. Carcinogenic exposures appear to affect the entiry epithelial lining of the upper aerodigestive tract, a phenomena described as "field cancerization. " This process contributes to the development of both synchronous and metachronous aerodigestive tract cancers. It also provides a sound rationale for the chemoprevention of these cancers. Animal models are important for identifying the critical components of field cancerization and for testing potentially new chemopreventive agents and regimens. The hamster lung carcinogen esis model and the hamster cheek model are discussed. Aerodigestive tract cancers account for about 20% of newly diagnosed invasive cancers. Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption are the most important risk factors for these cancers.