Halogenated biphenyls, terphenyls, naphthalenes, dibenzodioxins, and related products /
[Book]
editors, Renate D. Kimbrough, Allan A. Jensen
2nd fully rev. ed
New York, NY, USA :
Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1989
xv, 518 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Topics in environmental health ;
v. 4
Includes bibliographies and index
Genetic toxicity -- Mechanism of action and structure-activity relationship for the chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and related compounds -- Immune alterations -- Part III. Human exposure and health effects: General population exposure to environmental concentrations of halogenated biphenyls -- Background levels in humans -- Yusho, with reference to Yu-Cheng -- Yu-Cheng -- PCB capacitor/transformer accidents -- The Seveso accident: medical survey of a TCDD exposure -- Localized contamination with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin: the Missouri episode -- Occupational exposure
Part I. Chemistry, usage and environmental contamination: Production, properties and usage of polychlorinated biphenyls -- Chemical properties, analytical methods and environmental levels of PCBs, PCTs, PCNs, and PBBs -- Chemial and physical properties, analytical methods, sources and environmental levels of halogenated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans -- Effects on fish and wildlife polutions -- Part II. Toxicokinetics, in vitro tests, and animal toxicity: Polyhalogenated aromatics: uptake, disposition and metabolism -- Acute and chronic toxicity and carcinogenesis in animals -- Reproductive and developmental toxicity in animals