Metabolic activation of carcinogenic aristolochic acid, a risk factor for urothelial cancer

Abstract

Metabolic activation of carcinogenic aristolochic acid as a risk factor for urothelial cancer was studied in this work.

Keywords

• Metabolic activation
• aristolochic acid
• carcinogen
• urothelial cancer
• Aristolochic acid nephropathy
• Balkan endemic nephropathy