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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-11-20
pubmed:abstractText
The inflammatory process has long been known to be a risk factor for human cancers, particularly of the lung, bladder, colon, stomach, and female breast. Earlier hypothesis cited production of oxygen radicals, release of cytokines, and synthesis of prostaglandins and leukotrienes as biochemical modulators of the carcinogenic process. The discovery of NO. as a product of cells in the immune system has implicated this chemical in the mechanism of carcinogenesis, particularly when NO. is overproduced over a long period of time. After briefly reviewing the important chemical reactions of NO. under physiological conditions, we examine how the chemistry of its key reactants toward biologically important molecules relate to DNA damage and cytotoxicity. In these two processes, NO may play an important role in currently accepted models of multistage carcinogenesis.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
1288
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
F31-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of nitric oxide (NO.) in the carcinogenic process.
pubmed:affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Toxicology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review