Alert for an epidemic of oral cancer due to use of the betel quid substitutes gutkha and pan masala: A review of agents and causative mechanisms

Mutagenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 251-262

  Nair, Urmila ^a   Bartsch, Helmut ^a   Nair, Jagadeesan ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 (METHYLNITROSAMINO)PROPIONITRILE; 4 (METHYLNITROSAMINO) 1 (3 PYRIDYL) 1 BUTANONE; 4 O METHYLTHYMIDINE; 6 O METHYLGUANINE; 7 METHYLGUANINE; 8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ALCOHOL; ALKALOID; ARECAIDINE; ARECOLINE; BETEL EXTRACT; CALCIUM HYDROXIDE; CALCIUM OXIDE; CARCINOGEN; CATECHIN; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; FLAVONOID; GUVACINE; GUVACOLINE; NICOTINE; NITROSAMINE; NITROSONORNICOTINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROPIONITRILE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TANNIN; TOBACCO EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BETEL NUT; CARCINOGENICITY; EPIDEMIC; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LIP CANCER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PIPER BETLE; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TAIWAN; TONGUE CANCER;

ARECA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUTAGENS; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TAIWAN; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

ARECA CATECHU; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PIPER BETEL;

EID: 3543128313     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geh036     Document Type: Review

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