In Vitro Toxicity Testing of Environmental Agents [E-Book] : Current and Future Possibilities Part A: Survey of Test Systems / edited by Alan R. Kolber, Thomas K. Wong, Lester D. Grant, Robert S. DeWoskin, Thomas J. Hughes.
These two volumes contain the papers presented at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute held on September 22-28, 1979 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The conference was entitled "In Vitro Toxicity Testing of Environmental Agents: Current and Future Possibilities." Th...
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Personal Name(s): | DeWoskin, Robert S., editor |
Grant, Lester D., editor / Hughes, Thomas J., editor / Kolber, Alan R., editor / Wong, Thomas K., editor | |
Imprint: |
Boston, MA :
Springer,
1983
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Physical Description: |
XX, 553 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9781461335665 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4613-3566-5 |
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- A: Survey of Test Systems
- I. Mutagenesis Testing: Prokaryotic Systems
- Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis and Chromosomal Carcinogenesis: A Suimnary Review
- Molecular Principles Underlying the Ames Salmonella/Microsome Test: Elements and Design of Short-Term Mutagenesis Tests
- Bacillus subtilis Rec-Assay With and Without Metabolic Activation: Improvements and Applications
- A Simple, Forward Selection Scheme for Independently Determining the Toxicity and Mutagenic Effect of Environmental Chemicals: Measuring Replica- tive Killing of Escherichia coli by an Integrated Fragment of Bacteriophage Lambda DNA
- The Use of Salmonella Bacteriophage P22 To Study the Multiple Mechanisms of Acridine-Induced Damage
- II. Mutagenesis Testing: Eukaryotic Systems
- Use of a Ciliated Protozoan as a Model System To Detect Toxic and Carcinogenic Agents
- In Vivo Assay To Screen for Mutagens/Carcinogens in the Nematode C. elegans
- The Maize-Microbe Bioassay: A Unique Approach to Environmental Mutagenesis
- Mutagenicity of Ambient Air at Selected Sites in the United States Using Tradescantia as a Monitor
- Tradescantia Micronuclei (TRAD-MCN) Test for Environmental Clastogens
- Metabolic Activation and Mutagenic Properties of Procarcinogens in Drosophila
- Mammalian Cell Mutagenesis: Relevance for Detection of Environmental Mutagens/Carcinogens
- Quantitative Mammalian Cell Mutagenesis and Mutagen Screening: Study With Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
- III. In Vitro Carcinogenesis Testing
- In Vitro Carcinogenesis With Cell Lines
- Modulation of Induced Quantitative Mammalian Cell Transformation
- Chemical Carcinogenesis In Vitro: Limitations and Possibilities in the Use of Rat Liver Epithelial Cells for Screening Carcinogens
- IV. Neurobehavioral Toxicity Testing
- Behavioral Assays in environmental Toxicology
- Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Chemicals as a Test System for Neurotoxicology
- Mechanisms in Heavy Metal Toxicity
- Use of Cultures of Neuroblastoma and Glioma as a Model System To Study the Heavy Metal-Induced Neurotoxicity
- Neurochemical Approaches to Toxicity Testing: Artificial Food Dyes
- In Vitro Approaches to Neurotoxicity
- A Physiologist’s Perspective
- V. End-Organ Toxicity Testing
- Migration Inhibition of Alveolar Macrophages: An Assay System for Evaluating Toxicity of Pollutant Chemicals
- Environmental Factors in Renal Disease
- Indexes (Combined for Part A and Part B volumes)
- Author Index.