Everyday we come into contact with countless substances that could be toxic. This applies not only to the obvious candidates such as asbestos, lead, and sulphur dioxide, but also to compounds such as caffeine and headache tablets. A Small Dose of Toxicology explores the subject by placing toxicology..
Alcohol Interactions with Drugs and Chemicals is a concise volume that identifies, documents, and assesses the capacity of alcohol to alter the toxicity of chemical pollutants and drugs in animal models and humans. The book systematically assesses interactions according to general chemical classes o..
Focusing on the science and not the politics, Alternative Toxicological Methods highlights the recent progress made in developing and validating replacement, reduction, and refinement alternatives to animal testing. The book concisely discusses the application of state-of-the-art methods such as gen..
Gathering together leading authors and scientists at the forefront of the field, An Introduction to Toxicogenomics provides a comprehensive overview of this emerging subdiscipline. The book introduces the overall concept underlying microarray/oligonucleotide array-based genomic analysis and how it f..
This second edition of a bestseller provides an updated interdisciplinary text on the rapidly evolving information regarding asbestos and human health. It explores the pathological complexities of asbestos-related disease and examines how asbestos induces diseases in biological systems. The book als..
This second edition of a bestseller provides an updated interdisciplinary text on the rapidly evolving information regarding asbestos and human health. It explores the pathological complexities of asbestos-related disease and examines how asbestos induces diseases in biological systems. The book als..
This book features papers presented at a workshop discussing current knowledge about the biological effects of low level exposures (BELLE). The book is designed to help establish a scientific base for future BELLE initiatives and is focused on the issue of the toxicological implications of biologica..
This work concentrates on cellular and molecular toxicity of selected well-known drugs or chemicals on the cardiovascular system. The primary objective is to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms by which xenobiotics are toxic to mammalian tissues and cells. The use of in vitro cellular a..
Recent developments have provided new data on the subject of inhalation toxicology, requiring an update of the previous edition of this popular text. Like the first, this second edition explains the basic concepts and quantitative approaches in inhalation toxicology, and it gives a comprehensive tre..