Immunotoxicology - A Current Perspective of Principles and Practice

List of contents

1. Immunotoxicology: Bridging a Discipline or two.- 2. Assessing the Effects of Chemicals on Humoral Immune Function.- 3. Immune Cells and their Modulation by Exogenous Substances.- 4. Benzene-Induced Immunotoxicity: The Lymphocyte as a Tool for Studying Subcellular Mechanisms of Toxicity.- 5. Environmental Estrogens and their Effect on Immune Responses.- 6. Immunosuppression by the Tumor Promoting Phorbol Diester TPA: A Possible Epigenetic Mechanism in Carcinogenesis.- 7. Drug Allergies: Factors Influencing Induction and Diagnosis.- 8. Immunopharmacokinetics: The Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Immunoregulating Drugs.- 9. The Humoral Immunotoxicological Effects of Phenytoin - an Anticonvulsant Drug with Nonlinear Pharmacokinetics.- 10. Viral Infection and Xenobiotic Metabolism.- 11. Applications of Liposomes in Immunopotentiation.- 12. Nutritional Considerations in Immunotoxicology.- 13. Risk-Benefit Assessment in Immunotoxicology.- 14. Immunotoxicology: The Viewpoint of an Industrial Immunologist.

Product details

• Assisted by: P. W. Mullen (Editor), W Mullen (Editor), P W Mullen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2012
• EAN: 9783642697043
• ISBN: 978-3-642-69704-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Illustrations: VIII, 164 p.
• Series: NATO ASI Series G: Ecological Sciences; Nato ASI Series (closed) / Nato ASI Subseries G: (closed); NATO ASI Series; Nato ASI Subseries G; NATO ASI Series G: Ecological Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine