'Why Love Matters' explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.
These acclaimed volumes provide a firm methodological foundation for the evaluation of neural and behavioral toxicology, and address emerging hypotheses about the actions of pollutants on brain function. In Volume 3, distinguished contributors discuss the difficulties of assessing the effects of pervasive toxins in air and water.
"Clinical Nephrotoxins: Renal Injury from Drugs and Chemicals, Third Edition" is a comprehensive text on all aspects of adverse effects by drugs, chemical substances and radiation on the kidneys. The importance of the toxicity of drugs and other substances for the kidneys is increasingly recognized. The book consists of themes such as clinical ...
This text provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to key immunotoxicological issues for all those interested in, but with no prior knowledge of, this area of toxicology. The first section explores the health consequences of immunotoxicity, namely the adverse effects related to chemically-induced immunosuppression and immunostimulation ...
Taking stock of advances in clinical recognition, laboratory testing, and pharmacologic therapy as well as basic aspects of pathogenesis, the Third Edition of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia reinforces its standing as the leading guide to accurate diagnosis and effective management of this complex condition. Featuring added chapters on ...
Endocrine Disruptors: Effects on Male and Female Reproductive Systems examines the epidemiology and etiology of environmental toxicants/hormone imposters, many of which act as reproductive toxicants that cause fertility problems and carcinogenic hazards. Thus far, over fifty such hormone imposters/persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been ...
"Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition" has been totally revised since the successful first edition and expanded to about three times the length, with many new chapters and much more in-depth consideration of all the topics. The chapters have been written by distinguished international experts in various aspects of chemical warfare agents and ...
This is the first evaluative discussion of the use of neurotoxins to produce animal models of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and other human neurodegenerative diseases. The work also responds to criticisms of the use of animals in biomedical research by examining the utility, validity, and limitations of the models presented. An excellent ...
Fully updated to include crucial advances in the subject since publication of the First Edition, the Second Edition of this comprehensive volume reviews all aspects of occupational asthma, including disease mechanisms, clinical diagnosis and treatment, and categories of causative agents. Includes new and expanded material on: hypersensitivity ...
This volume discusses the clinical epidemiological and pathophysiological investigations of airways diseases - emphasizing the diagnosis, including immunological and physiological methods of evaluation, as well as detailing all known causative agents and the main workplace settings associated with occupational asthma. Written by over 30 leading ...
Psychiatric Disorders with a Biochemical Basis discusses the psychological/psychiatric consequences of biochemical, metabolic, and endocrine disturbances, highlighting pharmacological, toxicological, and nutritional aspects. Each clinical disorder is tackled from the angles of neuroanatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, with the details of ...
Addresses a number of basic principles underlying the vulnerability of the developing nervous system to environmental toxicant exposure. Evidence of functional alterations, induced at levels of chemical exposure that fail to produce structural teratological alterations, indicates that the evaluation of the functional capacity of exposed animals ...
Analgesic nephropathy, first recognized in 1950, was for two decades the most common cause of both acute and chronic renal failure in some parts of the world. This comprehensive text follows the story of the disease from its early description to its ultimatly sucessful prevention. The aetiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment are described by ...
Written from a patient's perspective, this book defines chemical sensitivity, then describes its effects, and discusses strategies for dealing with it. It includes a resource listing, information on documenting a case, opinions on CS and an examination of the issues. It contains an appendix which provides detoxification data.
To gain a complete overview of what is presently known about molecular carcinogenesis would prove to be a very daunting task for those not already steeped in this complex subject. Fortunately, David Warshawsky and Joseph Landolph Jr., both highly respected for their own contributions to the field, know exactly whom to call upon to fulfill the need ...
Cancer chemotherapy frequently attacks the gastrointestinal tract. Many of the possible side-effects reduce the patient's quality of life, may limit acceptance of further drug administration, and even life-threatening complications must be considered. This book is the proceedings of the Falk Workshop 'Side-effects of Chemotherapy on the ...
Addressing every key component of occupational asthma-including disease mechanisms, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and categories of causative agents-this Third Edition supplies an expert survey of the most influential advances and research in the field. Supplying new and expanded chapters on genetics, environmental monitoring, pathophysiology, ...
Despite recent advances in research and prevention, the incidence of common female cancers is still increasing. This book reviews the most recent advances in the fields of breast and gynecological carcinogenesis. It discusses the validity of animal models for study of these human diseases and addresses the relative contributions of genetic ...
Presenting a range of topics, from the molecular events surrounding hormone actions to epidemiologic studies of the effects of environmental and occupational chemicals on reproductive organs, this work covers a range of areas. The endocrine systems covered include the adrenal cortex, the thyroid and parathyroid, the gonads and the endocrine ...
This work presents and evaluates methods employed to identify the potential of certain types of chemicals to adversely affect the skin. A variety of test methods are included such as tests for skin penetration, metabolism, irritation, the skin immune system, photo effects, skin cancer, and topical effects of retinoids and depigmenting chemicals. ...
Carcinogens, like chemicals with other toxic hazards, often produce adverse effects only in specific organs or tissues. The factors determining whether a chemical induces cancer in an organ range from simple toxicokinetics to complex phenomena such as expression or lack of expression of specific genes. This volume examines the site-specific ...
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