Environmental and biochemical toxicology : concepts, case studies and challenges / edited by Jürgen Gailer, Raymond J. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter

Publicly Available I
Dedication

Publicly Available V
Preface

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Contents

Publicly Available IX
Overview and author contact information

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Chapter 1 Introduction and textbook scope

Jürgen Gailer and Raymond J. Turner
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Chapter 2 Overview of biochemical toxicology principles

Andrii Lekhan and Raymond J. Turner
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Chapter 3 Bacterial response to toxins

Raymond J. Turner
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Chapter 4 Toxic metal(loid) species at the blood–organ interface

Maryam Doroudian and Jürgen Gailer
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Chapter 5 Structural and chemical aspects of the molecular toxicology of heavy metals and metalloids

Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering, Ben Huntsman, Olena Ponomarenko, Emérita Mendoza Rengifo, Monica Y. Weng, J. H. Cotelesage and Natalia V. Dolgova
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Chapter 6 Using isotopic abundances to follow anthropogenic emissions: an example of sulfur, oxygen and boron isotopes in a Canadian watershed

A. L. Norman, J Xie, C. Kruschel and M Wieser
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Chapter 7 The role of metalloids (As, Sb) in airborne particulate matter related to air pollution

Daniel Sánchez-Rodas, Ana M. Sánchez de la Campa and María Millán Martínez
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Chapter 8 Toxic trace metals in the environment, a study of water pollution

Eve Kroukamp and Victor Wepener
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Chapter 9 Toxicity of nanomaterials

Raymond J Turner
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Chapter 10 Toxicology of trace metals in the environment: a current perspective

Som Niyogi, Kamran Shekh and Solomon Amuno
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Chapter 11 Socioeconomic, political, and legal ramifications of environmental and biochemical toxicology: the complicated story of mercury

Feiyue Wang and Robie W. Macdonald
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Chapter 12 Suggested problems, case studies, assignments

Jürgen Gailer and Raymond J. Turner
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Index 327

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.

Defining and understanding the pollution problem.
Selected fundamental toxicological problems
Discovery of novel toxicological mechanisms of action.
Philosophic considerations