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Generations at risk : reproductive health and the environment /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding and Using the Science: Reproductive Physiology and Toxicology
- Reproductive and Developmental Physiology
- Hormones
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal system
- The ovaries
- The testes
- Normal fetal development
- How toxicants can affect reproduction and development
- Principles of abnormal development
- The Role of Science in Public Health Decisions
- The scientific method and the issue of proof
- Animal toxicology
- Epidemiology
- Quantitative risk assessment
- Reexamining scientific tools
- Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Selected Substances and Human Exposures
- Metals
- Lead
- Mercury
- Cadmium
- Arsenic
- Manganese
- Organic Solvents
- Reproductive and developmental effects in humans
- Solvent profiles
- Pesticides
- Active ingredients and "inerts"
- Pesticides fate and transport
- Exposure to pesticides
- Reproductive and developmental toxicity of pesticides
- Pesticide profiles
- Endocrine Disruptors
- Mechanisms of action
- Health effects of endocrine disruptors
- Endocrine disruptor profiles
- Human Exposures to Reproductive Toxicants
- Data sources relevant to human exposure
- Data relevant to human exposure to reproductive toxicants
- The relevance of exposure information
- A Guide to Investigating Environmental Threats to Reproduction
- The Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals and Your Right to Know
- Regulatory responsibility
- Informed consent and the right-to-know
- Twentieth-century seminal events relating to toxic chemicals.