Book Description
Toxicology’s gold-standard text – completely updated to reflect the latest breakthroughs and discoveries A Doody’s Core Title for 2021! Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Ninth Edition equips you with an unsurpassed understanding of modern toxicology, including the key principles, concepts, mechanisms, chemical-specific toxicity, and modes of thought that are the foundation of the discipline. This trusted classic not only delivers a comprehensive review of the essential components of toxicology, it offers the most up-to-date, revealing, and in-depth look at the systemic responses of toxic substance available anywhere. Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Ninth Edition is logically divided into seven sections: General Principles of Toxicology Disposition of Toxicants Non-Organ Directed Toxicity Target Organ Toxicity Toxic Agents Environmental Toxicology Applications of Toxicology Many new contributors capture the progress made in toxicology over the past few years: This edition is markedly updated from the previous edition, with more than one-third of the chapters authored by scientists who have not made previous contributions to the book. Sharing their expertise, they deliver dynamic new coverage of the importance of apoptosis, autophagy, cytokines, growth factors, oncogenes, cell cycling, receptors, gene regulation, protective mechanisms, repair mechanisms, transcription factors, signaling pathways, transgenic mice, knock-out mice, humanized mice, polymorphisms, microarray technology, second-generation sequencing, genomics, proteomics, epigenetics, exposome, microbiota, read across, adverse outcome pathways, high-content screening, computational toxicology, innovative test methods, and organ-on-a-chip in understanding the mechanisms of toxicity and the regulation of chemicals. A true “essential” If you are in need of an up-to-date, all-in-one overview of the biomedical and environmental aspects of toxicology – written by experts, and presented in full color, your search ends here.
Book Details
- Author: Curtis D. Klaassen, Mary O. Amdur, John Doull
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
- Published Date: 2018-11-19
- Published Year: 2018
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9781259863745
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