Arsenic : exposure sources, health risks, and mechanisms of toxicity /: exposure sources, health risks, and mechanisms of toxicity. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by J. Christopher States, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
• Editors: States, J. Christopher
• Contents: Section I: Fundamentals of Arsenic Exposure and Metabolism Chapter 1: History of Arsenic as a Poison and Medicinal 4 Chapter 2: Geogenic and Anthropogenic Arsenic Hazard in Groundwaters and Soils – Distribution, Nature, Origin & Human Exposure Routes 34 Chapter 3: Remediation of Arsenic in Drinking Water 115 Chapter 4: The Chemistry and Metabolism of Arsenic 149 Section II: Epidemiology and Disease Manifestations of Arsenic Exposure Chapter 5: Human Population Studies and Nutritional Intervention 203 Chapter 6: Skin manifestations of chronic arsenicosis 230 Chapter 7: Lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases 247 Chapter 8: Bladder Cancer and Arsenic 300 Chapter 9: Neurological Effects of Arsenic Exposure 342 Chapter 10: Diabetes Mellitus 387 Chapter 11: Hepatotoxicity 428 Chapter 12: Genetic Epidemiology of Susceptibility to Arsenic-induced Diseases 457 Section III. Mechanisms of Toxicity Chapter 13: Arsenic Interaction with Zinc Finger Motifs 501 Chapter 14: Role In Chemotherapy 545 Chapter 15: Genotoxicity 607 Chapter 16: Arsenic and Signal Transduction 650 Chapter 17: Stem Cell Targeting and Alteration by Arsenic 704 Chapter 18: Epigenetics and Arsenic Toxicity 748 Section IV: Models for Arsenic Toxicology, Risk Assessment Chapter 19: Cancer Induced by Exposure to Arsenicals in Animals 779 Chapter 20: Arsenic induced cardiovascular disease 804 Chapter 21: Invertebrate Models in Arsenic Research: Past, Present & Future 835 Chapter 22: Toxicokinetics and Pharmacokinetic Modelling of Arsenic 884 Chapter 23: Considerations for a Biologically Based Risk Assessment for Arsenic 909 Chapter 24: Translating experimental data to human populations 955 .
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 615.925715; Arsenic -- Health aspects; Arsenic -- Toxicology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118876787
• Related ISBNs: 9781118511145
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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