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8177993 
Journal Article 
Stranger to life: The toxicity of xenobiotics 
Estabrook, RW 
1982 
Vol. 1981-1982 
92-103 
English 
Many drugs and other chemicals foreign to the body are transformed into highly reactive products by a biochemical system called cytochrome P-450. What governs that system, its nature, and the mechanisms that protect the cell against its reactive products are now under intensive research. The result may be a fundamental understanding of why and how particular chemicals produce cancers and other cellular damage.