 Tars
"Tars" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Viscous materials composed of complex, high-molecular-weight compounds derived from the distillation of petroleum or the destructive distillation of wood or coal. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
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D013638
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.749
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tars" by people in Profiles.
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Frazer-Abel AA, McCue JM, Lazis S, Portas M, Lambert C, Freed BM. Cigarette tar phenols impede T cell cycle progression by inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinases. Mol Immunol. 2007 Jan; 44(4):488-93.
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McCue JM, Link KL, Eaton SS, Freed BM. Exposure to cigarette tar inhibits ribonucleotide reductase and blocks lymphocyte proliferation. J Immunol. 2000 Dec 15; 165(12):6771-5.
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Geiselhart LA, Christian T, Minnear F, Freed BM. The cigarette tar component p-benzoquinone blocks T-lymphocyte activation by inhibiting interleukin-2 production, but not CD25, ICAM-1, or LFA-1 expression. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1997 Mar; 143(1):30-6.
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Kaufman DW, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L, Stolley P, Warshauer E, Shapiro S. Tar content of cigarettes in relation to lung cancer. Am J Epidemiol. 1989 Apr; 129(4):703-11.
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