A hepatic carcinogen whose mechanism of activation involves N-hydroxylation to the aryl hydroxamic acid followed by enzymatic sulfonation to sulfoxyfluorenylacetamide. It is used to study the carcinogenicity and mutagenicity of aromatic amines.
Subtype terms (2)
More specific conditions that are subtypes of 2-Acetylaminofluorene in the MeSH hierarchy.