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Environmental toxicology : biological and health effects of pollutants.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boca Raton, Fla. ; London : CRC, c2011.Edition: 3rd ed. / Ming-Ho Yu, Humio Tsunoda, Masashi TsunodaDescription: xxi, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781439840382 (hbk.) :
  • 9781439840382 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.902 YU
LOC classification:
  • RA1226 .Y79 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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