Title | Handbook of pesticide toxicology [electronic resource] / edited by Robert I. Krieger |
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Imprint | San Diego : Academic Press, c2001 |
Edition | 2nd ed |
Connect to | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124262607 |
Descript | 2 v. (xxxiv, 1908) : ill. ; 29 cm |
Preface. -- Foreword. -- Dose (Dosage and Other Factors Influencing Toxicity. -- Chemistry of Pesticides. -- Pest Control Agents from Natural Products. -- Public Health Pesticides. -- Lawn and Turf: Management and Environmental Issues of Turfgrass Pesticides. -- Insecticides and Their Use in Urban Structural Pest Control. -- Verterbrate Pest Control Chemicals and Their Use in Urban and Rural Envrionments. -- Pesticide Use in Veterinary Medicine. -- Pesticide Use Practices in Integrated Pest Management. -- Toxicity Testing. -- Regulatory Evaluation of the Skin Effects of Pesticides. -- Neurophysiological Effect of Insecticides. -- Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment of Pesticides in the Environment. -- Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology of Pesticides. -- Worker Exposure: Methods and Techniques. -- Residential Exposure Assessment: An Overview. -- Modeling Dietary Exposure with Special Secitons on Meodeling Aggregate and Cumulative Exposure. -- Greenhouse and Mushroom House ExposureCoping with Aggregate Pesticide Exposure Assessment: An Integration Approach. -- Occupational Exposure Data Bases/Models for Pesticides. -- Factors that Affect Pesticide Metabolism and Toxicity. -- Pesticide Disposition Dermal Absorption. -- Metabolism of Pesticides. -- Absorption, Distribution, and Pharmacokinetics. -- Pesticide Excretion. -- Diagnosis and Treatment of Poisoning Due to Pesticides. -- Surveillance of Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury in Humans. -- Environmental Transport and Fate. -- Hydrophobicity as a Key Physicochemical Parameter of Environmental Toxociology of Pesticides. -- Modern Approaches to Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Foods and the Environment. -- Risk Assessment and Risk Management: The Regulatory Process. -- Risk Assessment for Acute Exposure to Pesticides. -- Risk Assessment for Chronic Exposure to Pesticides: The Triazine Herbicide Cyanazine. -- Pesticides as Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals. -- Genetic Toxicity of Pesticides. -- Immunotoxicity of Pesticides. -- Sensitive Population Groups. -- Pesticide Residues in Food and Cancer Risk: A Critical Analysis. -- Perceptions of Pesticides as Risks to Human Health. -- Mammalian Toxicity of Microbial Pest Control Agents. -- The Influence of Age on Pesticide Toxicity. -- Emerging Issues: Children's Exposure to Pesticides in Residential Settings. -- Pesticide Percutaneous Absorption and Decontamination. -- Chemistry of Organophosphorus Insectides. -- The Metabolism of Organophosphorus Insecticides. -- Organophosphate Pharmacokinetics. -- Neuropathy Target Esterase. -- Cholinesterases. -- Organophosphorus-Induced Delayed Neuropathy. -- Understanding the Toxic Actions of Organophosphates. -- Clinical Toxicology of Anticholinesterase Agents in Humans. -- Carbomate Insecticides. -- Aldicarb: Current Science-Based Approaches in Risk Assessment. -- Imidacloprid A Neonicotinoid Insecticide -- Interactions with the gamma-Aminobytyric Acid A-Receptor Polychlorocycloalkanes and Recent Congeners. -- The Avermectins: Insecticidal and Antiparasitic Agents. -- Inhibitors and Uncouplers of Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation. -- Pyrethroid Chemistry and Metabolism. -- Pyrethroid Insecticides: Mechanisms of Toxicity, Systemic Poisoning Syndromes, Parathesia, and Therapy. -- DDT and its Analogs. -- Inorganic and Organometal Pesticides. -- Boric Acid and Inorganic Borate Pesticides. -- Deet. -- The Safety Assessment of Piperonyl Butoxide. -- Pentachlorophenol. -- Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Triazine Herbicides. -- Phenylurea Herbicides. -- Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase Inhibitors. -- Chloracetanilides. -- Paraquat. -- Diquat. -- Phenoxy Herbicides. -- Dicamba. -- Imidazolinones. -- Toxicology of Triazolopyrimidine Herbicides. -- Inhibitors of Aromatic Acid Biosynthesis. -- Fungicides. -- Cyprodinil. -- Captan and Folpet. -- Chlorothalonil. -- Dialkyldithiocarbamates. -- A Toxicological Assessment of Sulfur as a Pesticide. -- Rodenticides. -- Methyl Bromide. -- Dichloropropene. -- Phosphine. -- Metam-Sodium. -- Sulfuryl Fluoride