CORESTA Congress, New Orleans, 2002, STPOST 02
Biological monitoring for the exposure to 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
ABF Analytisch-Biologisches Forschungslabor GmbH, Munich, Germany
The tobacco-specific N -nitrosamine 4-(N -methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) is a rodent lung carcinogen. Although its role in the human smoking-related lung carcinogenesis is not fully understood, big efforts are made to reduce the...