Mammals polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Cavalier E, E Rogan (1998) Mechanisms of tumor initiation by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mammals. Handbook Environ Chem 3J 82-117. 

Hellou, J. 1996. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine mammals, finfish, and molluscs. Pages 229-250 in W.N. Beyer, G.H. Heinz, and A.W. Redmon-Norwood (eds.). Environmental Contaminants in Wildlife Interpreting Tissue Concentrations. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 

Hellou, J., G. Stenson, I.H. Ni, and J.F. Payne. 1990. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in muscle tissue of marine mammals from the northwest Atlantic. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 21 469-473. 

In many mammals induction of monooxygenation by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is accompanied by the formation of a hemoprotein not seen to any appreciable extent in non-induced animals. This leads to an alteration in the microsomal hemoprotein populations, a change in the metabolic activity of the microsomes and, hence, possible alterations in the toxicity of other chemicals (27, 8). 

Delistraty, D. 1998. A critical revew of the application of toxic equivalency factors to carcinogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mammals pp. 312-359. In PAHs and Related Compounds, Vol. 3.J (A.H. Neilson ed.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 

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