A textbook of modern toxicology.
edited by Ernest Hodgson.
- 4th ed. / Ernest Hodgson.
- Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- 704 p.
Previous ed.: Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, 2004. Includes index.
Part I.Introduction -- 1.Introduction to toxicology -- 2.Introduction to biochemical and molecular methods in toxicology -- 3.Exposure classes, toxicants in air, water, soil and domestic, and occupational settings -- 4.Classes of toxicants: use classes -- Part III.Toxicant processing in vivo -- 6.Metabolism of toxicants -- 7.Reactive metabolites -- 8.Chemical and physiological effects on xenobiotic metabolism -- 9.Elimination of toxicants -- Part IV.Toxic action -- 10.Acute toxicity -- 11.Chemical carcinogenesis and mutagenesis --12.Teratogenesis -- Part V.Organ toxicity -- 13.Hepatotoxicity -- 14.Nephrotoxicity -- 15.Toxicology of the nervous system -- 16.Reproductive system -- 17.Endocrine toxicology -- 18.Respiratory toxicology -- 19.Immune system -- 20.Toxicity testing -- 21.Forensic and clincial toxicology -- 22.Prevention of toxicity -- 23.Human health risk assessment -- 24.Toxicant analysis: analytical methods and quality assurance -- 25.Basics of environmental toxicology -- 26.Transport and fate of toxicants in the environment -- 27.Environmental risk assessment -- 28.Perspectives on informatics in toxicology -- 29.Future considerations.
This text provides an authoritative resource on toxicology, the science of poisons. It embraces the physical and chemical study of all the known poisonous substances, as well as the methods of testing for them, their action on the living body, and the postmortem results they occasion.
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