Ebook: Environmental and Biochemical Toxicology: Concepts, Case Studies and Challenges

This text coherently links biochemical fundamentals and mechanisms with economic and societal problems of environmental pollution. It addresses interdisciplinary topics such as regulatory problems, sampling and pollutant quantifi cation, model organisms and provides a philosophical perspective on the toxin load on a variety of organisms, including humans in the environment in the Anthropocene. Case studies and exercises illustrate current issues and discuss future aspects.

• Defining and understanding the pollution problem.
• Selected fundamental toxicological problems
• Discovery of novel toxicological mechanisms of action.
• Philosophic considerations