Developmental toxicology.
Contributors: Hansen, Deborah Kay, 1952-; Abbott, Barbara D.
Edition: 3rd ed. / edited by Deborah K. Hansen, Barbara D. Abbott.
Series: Target organ toxicology series -- 27
Publisher: Informa Healthcare USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420054378
Subjects: Developmental toxicology; Fetus -- Effect of drugs on; Teratogenic agents; Abnormalities, Drug-Induced; Embryonic Development -- drug effects; Fetal Development -- drug effects; Risk Assessment; Teratogens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Role of apoptosis in normal and abnormal development / Mirkes; title: Signal transduction pathways as targets for teratogens / Abbott; title: Nutrition in developmental toxicology / Hansen; title: Ellis-Hutchings & Rogers; title: Epigenetic mechanisms-role of DNA methylation, histone modifications & imprinting / Ellis-Hutchings & Rogers; title: Personalized nutrition and medicine in perinatal development / Kaput, Chen, Slikker Jr.; title: Targeted gene changes affecting developmental toxicity / Hunter & Hartig; title: Use of mammalian in vitro systems, including embryonic stem cells, in developmental toxicity testing / Ozolin; title: Brannen ... [et al.]; title: Zebrafish : a non-mammalian model of developmental toxicology / Brannen ... [et al.]; title: Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling in the risk assessment of developmental toxicants / Valcke, Krishnan; title: Integration of whole animal developmental toxicity data into risk assessment / Hurtt & Cappon; title: Genomic approaches in developmental toxicology / Daston and Naciff; title: Comparative bioinformatics and computational toxicology / Knudsen, Kavlock; title: Investigating drug effects in human pregnancy developmental toxicology / Chambers.