Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with special focus on cancer

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of compounds consisting of two or more fused aromatic rings. Most of them are formed during incomplete combustion of organic materials such as wood and fossil fuels, petroleum products, and coal. The composition of PAH mixtures varies with the sour...

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Main Authors: Thamaraiselvan Rengarajan, Peramaiyan Rajendran, Natarajan Nandakumar, Boopathy Lokeshkumar, Palaniswami Rajendran, Ikuo Nishigaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-03-01
Series:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
Subjects:
PAH
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169115300034