Dioxins and health
By: edited by Arnold Schecter, Thomas A. Gasiewicz.
Contributors: Schecter, Arnold.; Gasiewicz, Thomas A.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 952
Subjects: Dioxins -- toxicity; Environmental Exposure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview: The Dioxin Debate / Thomas Webster and Barry Commoner; title: Production, Distribution and Fate of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins, Dibenzofurans, and Related Organohalogens in the Environment / Roger K. Gilpin, et al.; title: Dioxins in Food / James R. Startin and Martin D. Rose; title: Toxicology of Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds / Jeanelle M. Martinez, et al.; title: Health Risk Characterization of Dioxin and Related Compounds / Linda S. Birnbaum and William H. Farland; title: Pharmacokinetics of Dioxins and Related Chemicals / James R. Olson; title: Dose Response Modeling for 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin / Michael DeVito, et al.; title: Immunotoxicology of Dioxins and Related Chemicals / Nancy I. Kerkvliet; title: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Dioxins and Related Chemicals / H. Michael Theobald, et al.; title: Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on Neuronal Signaling / Richard F. Seegal; title: Experimental Toxicology: Carcinogenesis / Justin G. Teeguarden and Nigel J. Walker; title: The Ah Receptor: Involvement in Toxic Responses / Thomas A. Gasiewicz and Sang-ki Park; title: Biochemical Responses to Dioxin: Which Genes? Which Endpoints? / J. Kevin Kerzee, et al.; title: Evolutionary and Physiological Perspectives on Ah Receptor Function and Dioxin Toxicity / Mark E. Hahn; title: Dioxin Toxicity and Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling in Fish / Robert L. Tanguay, et al.; title: Exposure Assessment: Measurement of Dioxins and Related Chemicals in Human Tissues / Arnold Schecter, et al.; title: Human Health Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Matthew P. Longnecker, et al.; title: Epidemiological studies on cancer and exposure to dioxins and related compounds / Lennart Hardell, et al.; title: Reproductive and Developmental Epidemiology of Dioxins / Sherry G. Selevan, et al.; title: Health Consequences of the Seveso, Italy, Accident / Pier Alberto Bertazzi and Alessandro di Domenico; title: The Yusho Rice Oil Poisoning Incident / Yoshito Masuda; title: The Yucheng Rice Oil Poisoning Incident / Yueliang L. Guo, et al.