Environmental toxicology : biological and health effects of pollutants.
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- 9781439840382 (hbk.) :
- 9781439840382 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 615.902 YU
- RA1226 .Y79 2011
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 615.902 YU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 218586 |
Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Introduction -- 2.Enviromental changes and health -- 3.Occurence of toxicants -- 4.Toxic action of pollutants -- 5.Factors affecting xenobiotic action -- 6.Biotransformation -- 7.Responses to enviromental toxicants -- 8.Air pollution: inorganic gases -- 9.Air pollution: particulate matter -- 10.Environmental fluoride -- 11.Volatile organic compounds -- 12.Soil water polluton: environmental metals and metalloids -- 13.Pesticides and related materials 14.Occupational toxicology -- 15.Endocrine disruption -- 16.Mutagenic pollutants -- 17.Environmental cancer -- Appendix 1: Ecological risk assessment -- Appendix 2.11th Report on Carcinogens -- Appendix 3.List of cigarette smoke carcinogens -- Appendix 4.Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) nomenclature.
Focusing on the biological & health effects of toxicants on living organisms, this volume offers a discussion of the metabolism of xenobiotics, & several natural defense systems on a cellular level, & continues its comprehensive descriptions of air, soil, & water pollutants.