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Complex Exposures to Environmental Toxicants or Stresses

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Exposure Toxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans

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Both combinational exposure and sequential exposure reflect the interaction between different stresses, between different toxicants, or between a stress and a toxicant in influencing the physiological or developmental state of animals. In this chapter, we focused on the introduction of these two complex exposures to environmental toxicants or stresses in nematodes. For the combinational exposures, we introduced the combinational exposure to different soluble toxicants, the combinational exposure to soluble toxicant and particulate toxicant, the combinational exposure to different particulate toxicants, and the combinational exposure to a toxicant and a stress. For the sequential exposures, we introduced both the toxic effects and the beneficial effects.

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Wang, D. (2020). Complex Exposures to Environmental Toxicants or Stresses. In: Exposure Toxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6129-0_3

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