- December 1990
252.- Euro
1990. 280 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-471-85491-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-85491-3 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
This companion volume to Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Chemicals: Organic Compounds presents recent results from both field and laboratory studies investigating the presence of metals and organometallic compounds in biological media. A distinguished list of contributors describe studies which assess the extent of human exposure to metals, and recount fundamental studies at the molecular level, such as investigation of immunotoxicological effects of the interaction of metals during absorption and biological transformation. There is also a study of the biological monitoring of environmental contamination that demonstrates how biological samples determine the transport and fate of metals in the environment.

From the contents
Partial table of contents:

FIELD STUDIES.

Biological Monitoring and Health Surveillance of Workers Exposed to Mercury (K. Schaller, et al.).

Diagnosis of Aluminum Poisoning (P. Garrett, et al.).

Nervous System Monitoring for Early Signs of Chemical Toxicity (R. Singer).

LABORATORY STUDIES.

Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Chromium (VI) Salts: The Role of Solubility (P. Bragt, et al.).

Immunotoxicological Studies of Ammonium Metavanadate in Mice (M. Cohen, et al.).

Analysis of Microamounts of Biological Materials by Inductively Coupled Plasma and Microwave-Induced Plasma Spectrometry with Thermal Vaporization: A Review (H. Matusiewicz).

REVIEWS.

Survey of Experimental Studies on the Interaction between Cadmium and Iron during Intestinal Absorption (S. Schafer, et al.).

Heavy Metal Sources: Uptake and Distribution in Terrestrial Macroinvertebrates (M. Ireland).

Index.