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Author Boelsterli, Urs A., 1948-

Title Mechanistic toxicology : the molecular basis of how chemicals disrupt biological targets / Urs A. Boelsterli
Edition 2nd ed
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (pages)
Contents Types of toxic responses -- Organ-selective toxicity -- Cellular transport and selective accumulation of potentially toxic xenobiotics -- Bioactivation of xenobiotics to reactive metabolites -- Xenobiotic-induced oxidative stress: cell injury, signaling, and gene regulation -- Disruption of cellular calcium homeostasis -- Mechanisms of necrotic and apoptotic cell death -- Impairment of cell proliferation and tissue repair -- Covalent binding of reactive metabolites to cellular macromolecules -- Immune mechanisms -- Cytokine-mediated toxicity -- Specific inactivation of enzymes and other proteins -- Interactions of xenobiotics with ion transporters -- Nuclear receptor-mediated toxicity -- Activation or disruption of cellular signal transduction by xenobiotics -- Disruption of mitochondrial function and mitochondria-mediated toxicity -- Novel mechanisms derived from systems toxicology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Molecular toxicology.
Cellular signal transduction.
Toxicology -- methods
Molecular Biology -- methods
Signal Transduction
Xenobiotics -- pharmacokinetics
Xenobiotics -- toxicity
MEDICAL / Toxicology
Cellular signal transduction
Molecular toxicology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780367806293
0367806290
9781420006988
1420006983