1st Edition

Target Organ Toxicity in Marine and Freshwater Teleosts Organs

Edited By Daniel Schlenk, William H. Benson Copyright 2001
    382 Pages
    by CRC Press

    382 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Addressing the numerous gaps in current information, Target Organ Toxicology in Marine and Freshwater Teleosts is an essential resource for researchers and professionals in aquatic toxicology and environmental risk assessment. All the chapters are written by researchers who are internationally recognised for their work in mechanistic aspects of aquatic toxicology. Each chapter focuses on a specific target organ or physiological system and describes how various agents disrupt the normal physiological system and processes. This volume is devoted to specific organs with coverage of the gill, kidney, skin, liver and gut. The companion volume, Systems, provides coverage of toxic effects in the central nervous, immune, neurobehavioural and reproductive systems as well as describing general mechanisms of toxicity.

    1. Toxic Responses of the Gill Christopher Wood 2. Target Organ Toxicity in Kidney Bodil Katrine Larsen and Everett Perkins 3. Toxic Responses of the Skin James M. McKim and Gregory J. Lien 4. Liver David E. Hinton, Helmut Segner and Thomas Braunbeck 5. Response of the Teleost Gastrointestinal System to Xenobiotics Kevin M. Kleinow and Margaret O. James Katrine Larsen, University of Missisippi, USA, Everett Perkins, Eli Lilly and Company, USA, James M. McKim, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA, Gregory J. Lien, USA, David E. Hinton, Duke University, USA, Helmut Segner, UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Germany, Thomas Braunbeck, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Kevin M. Kleinow, Louisiana State University, USA, Margaret O. James, University of Florida, USA.

    Biography

    Schlenk, Daniel; Benson, William H.