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Environmental and biochemical toxicology : concepts, case studies and challenges / edited by Jürgen Gailer and Raymond J. Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- De Gruyter textbook.
- De Gruyter textbook
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biochemical toxicology.
- Environmental toxicology.
- Pollution.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]
- Summary:
- This text coherently links biochemical fundamentals and mechanisms with economic and societal problems of environmental pollution. It addresses interdisciplinary topics such as regulatory problems, sampling and pollutant quantifi cation, model organisms and provides a philosophical perspective on the toxin load on a variety of organisms, including humans in the environment in the Anthropocene. Case studies and exercises illustrate current issues and discuss future aspects.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Overview and author contact information
- Chapter 1 Introduction and textbook scope
- Chapter 2 Overview of biochemical toxicology principles
- Chapter 3 Bacterial response to toxins
- Chapter 4 Toxic metal(loid) species at the blood–organ interface
- Chapter 5 Structural and chemical aspects of the molecular toxicology of heavy metals and metalloids
- Chapter 6 Using isotopic abundances to follow anthropogenic emissions: an example of sulfur, oxygen and boron isotopes in a Canadian watershed
- Chapter 7 The role of metalloids (As, Sb) in airborne particulate matter related to air pollution
- Chapter 8 Toxic trace metals in the environment, a study of water pollution
- Chapter 9 Toxicity of nanomaterials
- Chapter 10 Toxicology of trace metals in the environment: a current perspective
- Chapter 11 Socioeconomic, political, and legal ramifications of environmental and biochemical toxicology: the complicated story of mercury
- Chapter 12 Suggested problems, case studies, assignments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-062628-4
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