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PAHs and Phototoxicity

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PAHs or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons belong to group of environmental pollutants which come under human carcinogens. PAHs is a class which refers to an immensely colossal number carbon and hydrogen along with two or more fused aromatic rings. These PAHs produced from chemicals occur naturally in coal, crude oil, and gasoline. The physical properties of PAHs include flammable, solid crystals at room temperature, and tobacco leads to the engenderment of these deleterious chemicals. Their presence is also detected in cigarette smoke and motor vehicle emissions up to a certain levels. The exposure of PAHs to general population is in the form of breathing ambient and indoor air, by the consumption of contaminated aliment containing cigarette smoke, tobacco, and polluted air. Occupational exposure of PAHs may be reason for breathing quandaries, chest pain, and vexation coughing and also cause cancer.

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  1. Authors Ajeet K. Srivastav and Shikha Agnihotry have been equally contributed to this chapters.

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  1. Photobiology Laboratory, System Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment Group, CSIR- Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ajeet K. Srivastav, Sandeep Negi, Ankit Verma & Ratan Singh Ray

  2. Department of Biomedical-informatics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow, India

    Shikha Agnihotry

  3. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Shia P.G. College, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Syed Faiz Mujtaba

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  1. Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ratan Singh Ray

  2. Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ashish Dwivedi

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  5. Photobiology Division, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Srivastav, A.K., Agnihotry, S., Mujtaba, S.F., Negi, S., Verma, A., Ray, R.S. (2018). PAHs and Phototoxicity. In: Ray, R., Haldar, C., Dwivedi, A., Agarwal, N., Singh, J. (eds) Photocarcinogenesis & Photoprotection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5493-8_9

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