Biosensors and environmental health / editors, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preedy, Victor R.

Patel, Vinood B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biosensors.

Environmental health.

Environmental toxicology.

Pollution--Measurement.

Pollution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biosensors have a biological component within them and can be used to detect, monitor or quantify environmental substances. Chapters have an abstract, key facts, applications to other areas of health and disease and a mini-dictionary of key terms and summary points. Coverage includes personal toxicity testing, soil and risk assessment, pesticide, insecticides, parasites, nitrate, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, food contamination, whole cell bioreporters, bacterial biosensors, antibody-based biosensors, enzymatic, amperometric and electrochemical aspects, quorum sensing, DNA-biosensors, cantilever biosensors, bioluminescence and other methods and applications. Contributors are leading authorities and the book is essential reading for environmental scientists, toxicologists, medical doctors, health care professionals, pathologists, biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists, general practitioners as well as those interested in disease and sciences in general. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Immunochips for personal toxicity testing / Zhixian Gao, Nan Liu and Rajkumar Rajendram

2. Detection of pesticide residues using biosensors / Javier Ramon-Azcon, Tomoyuki Yasukawa and Fumio Mizutani

3. Biosensors for ecotoxicity of xenobiotics : a focus on soil and risk assessment / Edoardo Puglisi. [et al.]

4. Biosensor-controlled degradation of organophosphate insecticides in water / Georges Istamboulie. [et al.]

5. Biosensors for endocrine disruptors : the case of bisphenol A and catechol / Marianna Portaccio. [et al.]

6. Biosensors for detection of heavy metals / Pavlina Sobrova. [et al.]

7. Whole cell biosensors : applications to environmental health / S. Buchinger and G. Reifferscheid

8. Bacterial whole cell bioreporters in environmental health / Yizhi Song. [et al.]

9. Environmental toxicology monitoring with polyazetidine-based enzymatic electrochemical biosensors / Franco Mazzei and Gabriele Favero

10. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) sensitive bacterial biosensors in environmental health / Mona Wells

11. Quorum sensing in microbial biosensors / Swati Choudhary and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

12. Biosensors based on immobilization of proteins in supramolecular assemblies for the detection of environmental relevant analytes / Rosa Pilolli. [et al.]

13. Nanogravimetric and voltammetric DNA-biosensors for screening of herbicides and pesticides / Maria Hepel, Magdalena Stobiecka and Anna Nowicka

14. Nitrate determination by amperometric biosensors : applications to environmental health / Erol Akyilmaz and Victor R. Preedy

15. Antibody-based biosensors for small environmental pollutants : focusing on PAHs / Candace R. Spier, Michael A. Unger and Stephen L. Kaattari

16. Exoelectrogens-based electrochemical biosensor for environmental monitoring / Liu Deng, Li Shang and Shaojun Dong

17. Detecting waterborne parasites using piezoelectric cantilever biosensors / Sen Xu and Raj Mutharasan

18. Bioluminescence-based biosensor for food contamination / Jinping Luo. [et al.].

Notes:

A Science Publishers book.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040221891

1040221890

9780429188343

042918834X

9781466565661

1466565667

OCLC:

822868162