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Environment and Skin / edited by Jean Krutmann, Hans F. Merk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Dermatology.
- Medicine, Industrial.
- Environmental health.
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.
- Environmental Health.
- Local Subjects:
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Dermatology.
- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.
- Environmental Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (V, 130 pages 26 illustrations, 18 illustrations in color)
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This book is a rich source of information on skin disorders due to toxicants in the environment. State of the art knowledge is summarized concerning the molecular basis of skin damage caused by well-appreciated environmental noxae. The book also provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the detrimental dermatological effects of exposure to air pollution and global climate change. A special focus is contact allergy, which, beyond representing a major problem in dermatotoxicology, serves as a prime example for the development of toxicological approaches to risk assessment. A further chapter is devoted to contact urticaria, a condition that can progress to life-threatening anaphylactic reactions. The novel information offered in this book will enable the reader to go beyond the traditional thinking of dermatotoxicology and achieve a modern appreciation of the highly complex interplay between skin and environment.
- Contents:
- General Aspects of Dermatotoxicology: Skin as a metabolizing organ
- Skin toxicology in the 21st century: Modern Risk Assessment Strategies
- Risk assessment for contact allergens. Environmental threats to skin: UV and skin: photoaging
- UV and skin: photocarcinogenesis
- Actinic skin damage beyond UV
- Tobacco smoke and skin
- Ozone and skin: Italy
- PM and skin
- Contact allergy
- Contact urticaria / Anaphylaxis
- Arsen and skin
- PAHs and skin
- Global climate change and skin diseases
- Global climate change, pollen and allergy.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319431024
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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