Brevetoxin forms covalent DNA adducts in rat lung following intratracheal exposure.
BACKGROUND: Human exposure to brevetoxins produced by the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, is an increasing public health concern. Using in vitro exposure of rat liver cells to brevetoxin B (PbTx-2), the primary toxin product of K. brevis, we previously showed that it formed C(27,28)-epoxy breveto...
| Published in: | Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 116; no. 7; pp. 930 - 937 |
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| Format: | research Journal Article |
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Jul2008
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