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. 2006 Oct 24;103(43):15725-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607811103. Epub 2006 Oct 16.

Smoking and lung cancer--a new role for an old toxicant?

Stephen S Hecht  1
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Smoking and lung cancer--a new role for an old toxicant?

Stephen S Hecht. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Summary of results reported by Feng et al. (7), showing that acrolein and the BaP metabolite BPDE produce similar spectra of DNA damage in the p53 gene of human lung cells and that these spectra resemble the pattern of mutations observed in the p53 gene from lung tumors in smokers.
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