Particle toxicology
By: edited by Ken Donaldson, Paul Borm.
Contributors: Donaldson, Kenneth, DSc.; Borm, Paul.
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780849350924
Subjects: Pulmonary toxicology.; Particles -- Toxicology.; Air Pollutants -- toxicity.; Inflammation.; Mineral Fibers -- toxicity.; Oxidative Stress.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to particle toxicology: from coal mining to nanotechnology / Paul J.A. Borm and Ken Donaldson; title: Mineralogy and structure of pathogenic particles / Tim Jones and Kelly BéruBé; title: Particle dosimetry: deposition and clearance from the respiratory tract and translocation towards extra-pulmonary sites / Wolfgang G. Kreyling ... [et al.]; title: Particulate air pollutants and small airway remodeling / Andrew Churg; title: Particle-mediated extracellular oxidative stress in the lung / Frank J. Kelly and Ian S. Mudway; title: Particles and cellular oxidative and nitrosative stress / Dale W. Porter, Stephen S. Leonard, and Vincent Castranova; title: Interaction of particles with membranes / Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Samuel Schürch, and Peter Gehr; title: Particle-associated metals and oxidative stress in signaling / James M. Samet and Andrew J. Ghio; title: Proinflammatory effects of particles on macrophages and epithelial cells / Vicki Stone ... [et al.]; title: Cell-signaling pathways elicited by particulates / Jamie E. Levis and Brooke T. Mossman; title: Particle-associated organics and proinflammatory signaling / Francelyne Marano, Sonja Boland, and Armelle Baeza-Squiban; title: The asbestos model of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis: TNF-a and TGF-b1 as mediators of asbestos-induced lung fibrogenesis / Deborah E. Sullivan and Arnold R. Brody; title: Effect of particles on the immune system / M. Ian Gilmour, Tina Stevens, and Rajiv K. Saxena; title: Effects of particles on the cardiovascular system / Nicholas L. Mills ... [et al.]; title: Susceptibility to particle effects / Steven R. Kleeberger and Reuben Howden; title: Genotoxic effects of particles / Roel P.F. Schins and Tom K. Hei; title: Approaches to the toxicological testing of particles / Ken Donaldson ... [et al.]; title: Models for testing the pulmonary toxicity of particles: Lung bioassay screening studies in male rats with a new formulation of TiO2 particulates / David B. Warheit, Kenneth L. Reed, and Christie M. Sayes; title: Air pollution and human brain pathology: a role for air pollutants in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease / Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas and William Reed; title: Biologically based lung dosimetry and exposure-dose-response models for poorly soluble inhaled particles / Lang Tran and Eileen Kuempel; title: Nanoparticles in medicine / Paul J.A. Borm and Detlef Muller-Schülte; title: The toxicology of inhaled particles: summing up an emerging conceptual framework / Ken Donaldson, Lang Tran, and Paul J.A. Borm.