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Environmental toxicology /
Environmental Toxicology is a comprehensive introductory textbook dealing with all aspects of the subject. It is primarily a text for students in environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, applied ecology, environmental management, and risk assessment. It will also be valuable...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Cambridge environmental chemistry series ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The emergence of environmental toxicology as science
- The historical background: Classical toxicology, ecotoxicology, and environmental toxicology
- Social aspects: The environmental movement
- Social aspects: Regulation
- Education in environmental toxicology
- The role of technology
- The science of environmental toxicology: Concepts and definitions
- The development of environmental toxicology
- An historical perspective on the science of environmental toxicology
- An evolutionary perspective on environmental toxicology
- Assessment of toxicity
- The dose-response
- The acute toxicity bioassay
- Subacute (chronic) toxicity assays
- The relationship between acute and chronic toxicity
- Statistical considerations
- Comparative bioassays
- Sediment toxicity assays
- Toxicity at the molecular level
- Carcinogenesis
- Genotoxicity assays
- Chromosome studies
- The concept of threshold toxicity
- Hormesis
- Receptors
- Routes and kinetics of toxicant uptake
- General considerations
- Route of toxicant uptake
- Skin
- Lungs
- Gills
- Digestive system
- Toxicant uptake by plants
- Uptake at the tissue and cellular level
- Toxicokinetics
- Single-compartment model
- Two-compartment model
- Volume of distribution
- Transporter-mediated transport
- Lethal body burden (critical body residue)
- Methodological approaches
- The general concepts and principles for biological indicators
- Tolerance and resistance to potentially toxic substances.