Synthesis of two potential heterocyclic amine food mutagens

…, JA Kozocas, TK Tochimoto

Index: Tanga, Mary J.; Kozocas, Joseph A.; Tochimoto, Todd K. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 45, # 3 p. 661 - 665

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Abstract

Several lines of evidence indicate that cooking conditions and dietary habits can contribute to human cancer risk through the ingestion of food mutagens. Our diet is a complex mixture that provides nutritional sustenance but may also be important in the causation, modulation, and prevention of cancer. Heterocyclic amines are formed in a temperature-and time- dependant manner during cooking from creatine or creatinine, certain free amino acids ...