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Aug 6, 2024 | academic.oup.com | la Banque du |Co-first authors |Quimby BD

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of organic compounds characterized by multiple fused benzene rings. Exposure to PAHs is a public health concern due to their many sources of production, frequency of detection in the environment, and known and suspected toxicities. The toxicity of different PAHs vary widely with forms of toxicity including carcinogenesis (Siddens et al. 2012; Boada et al. 2015; Stading et al. 2021; Vogeley et al. 2022), immunotoxicity (Yu et al.