Approaches Through Basic Science : Proceedings of the 1996 EUROTOX Congress Meeting Held in Alicante, Spain, September 22-25, 1996
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edited by Jürg P. Seiler, Eugenio Vilanova.
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Berlin, Heidelberg
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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1997
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(xii, 417 pages 62 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color.)
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Archives of toxicology., Supplement ;, 19.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Gerhard Zbinden Memorial Lecture --; Detection of Chemically-Induced Changes in p53 Expression --; Norman Aldridge Memorial Symposium: Toxicologists versus Toxicological Disasters: Toxic Oil Syndrome --; Altered Gene Expression and Immunotoxicity --; The Use of Ecotoxicology and Human Toxicology in the Regulation of Chemical Safety in the European Union --; Challenges in Analytical Toxicology --; Air Pollution and Allergy --; Prediction of Individual Susceptibility to Toxicants --; Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cutaneous Toxicity --; Progress in Antidotic Therapy --; In Vitro Cell Models for Investigating Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity --; Protein Targets of Neurotoxicity --; Carcinogenesis Mechanisms in Transgenic Mouse Models --; Algal Toxins and Human Health --; The Young Scientist Poster Award --; Subject Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume contains the main papers presented at the 1996 EUROTOX congress, Alicante, Spain, September 22-25,1996. The understanding of toxicological events, such as the Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome, or of intoxications by algal toxins draws heavily on the knowledge obtained from basic science. This is clearly reflected in the topics of Symposia and Workshops that deal with alterations in gene expression and immunotoxicity, prediction of individual susceptibility to toxicants, mechanisms of phototoxicity, protein targets of neurotoxicity, as well as mechanisms of carcinogenesis in transgenic mice. The application of basic science then allows better evaluation of the role of air pollution in allergy or a better assessment of progress in antidotic therapy. A pivotal role is fulfilled here by methodological aspects of the detection of changes in gene expression, challenges in analytical toxicology, or the development of in vitro models for the study of molecular mechanisms of toxicity.