Overview
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of how current health risk assessment of chemicals is carried out
- Provides the chemical basis of chemicals linked to ADHD
- Introduces a common biomarker for health impacts beyond the physiological dimension
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About this book
This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals. First, it provides an overview of the current methods of evaluating safety amounts of chemicals and provides a new aspect of the principle of toxicology. Secondly, it shows recent research where the new method of health risk evaluation is adopted, followed by an integrated health risk assessment of chemicals. Finally, it describes the epigenetic inheritance of chemical impact on health throughout several generations.
Estimating the safety amount of chemicals surrounding our lives is not sufficient for health risk evaluation, particularly for carcinogenic compounds, endocrine disruptors, and nano materials. The author’s group has found a family of chemicals linked to ADHD through animal screening and identified its chemical nature using chemoinformatics methods. Based on these new developments, this book proposes to utilize the biomarker common to those chemicals for health risk assessment, independent of exposure routes and physiological dimensions.
The book appeals to researchers and students in the field of toxicology, health risk assessment, pharmacology, and public health.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Current Health Risk Assessment of Chemicals
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New Concepts of Toxicological Mechanisms of Chemicals
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Integrated Health Risk Assessment of Chemicals
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Transgenerational Inheritance of Chemical Toxicity
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Masami Ishido is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. His research interests lie at the crossroads of micro and macro in vision systems and behavioral genetics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Risk Assessment of Environmental Chemicals
Book Subtitle: Pre-Emptive and Integrated Approaches
Authors: Masami Ishido
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1560-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1559-0Published: 21 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1562-0Due: 04 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1560-6Published: 20 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 161 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine, general, Environmental Health, Neurochemistry, Neurosciences, Biochemistry, general