Molecular mechanisms of alcohol-mediated carcinogenesis

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 599-612

  Seitz, Helmut K ^a   Stickel, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; BETA CAROTENE; CLOMETHIAZOLE; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; RETINOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALCOHOLISM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FATTY LIVER; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MOUSE STRAIN; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; RAT STRAIN; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SMOKING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACETALDEHYDE; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA METHYLATION; ETHANOL; HUMANS;

EID: 34547118090     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2191     Document Type: Review

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