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Applications of toxicogenomic technologies to predictive toxicology and risk assessment /

The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand the health effects of exposures to toxicants in the environment. At the request of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Research Council assembled a committee to identif...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Toxicogenomic technologies
  • Experimental design and data analysis
  • Application to exposure assessment
  • Application to hazard screening
  • Application to analyzing variation in human susceptibility
  • Application to the study of mechanisms of action
  • Other potential applications of toxicogenomic technologies to risk assessment
  • Validation
  • Sample and data collection and analysis
  • Ethical, legal, and social issues
  • Conculsions and recommendations.