The Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks
Volume 2: Toxins in Food
Published on 21. October 2012
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Paperback/Softback
XXIV, 332 pages
978-1-4613-6467-2 (ISBN)
Description
Contributors to this second volume discuss metal and toxicant toxicity, their environmental sources and methods of action, and their regulation by courts and agencies.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XXIV, 332 p.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
677 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-6467-2 (9781461364672)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-3330-6
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10/1992
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Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
I. Metals.- 1 Methylmercury Neurotoxicity and Its Uptake Across the Blood-Brain Barrier.- 2 The Neurotoxicity of Methylmercury in the Developing Nervous System.- 3 Intestinal Absorption of Aluminum: Relation to Neurotoxicity.- 4 Aluminum Ingestion: A Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease?.- 5 The Concept of Direct and Indirect Neurotoxicity and the Concept of Toxic Metal/Essential Element Interactions as a Common Biomechanism Underlying Metal Toxicity.- 6 Neurotoxic Metals and Neuronal Signalling Processes.- 7 Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Effects of Low-Level Lead Exposure.- 8 Lead Poisoning, Toxocariasis, and Pica: Links to Neurobehavioral Disorders.- 9 Nocardia: An Environmental Bacterium Possibly Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases in Humans.- II. Toxicants.- 10 Neurotoxicity of Polychlorinated Biphenyls: The Role of Ortho-Substituted Congeners in Altering Neurochemical Function.- 11 Central Nervous System Plasticity and Pathology Induced by Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides.- 12 Silver Impregnation of Organophosphorus-Induced Delayed Neuropathy in the Central Nervous System.- 13 Neuroreceptor and Behavioral Effects of DDT and Pyrethroids in Immature and Adult Mammals.- III. Selected Mechanisms of Action.- 14 Formation of Excess Reactive Oxygen Species within the Brain.- 15 Acute and Chronic Neurodegenerative Disorders Produced by Dietary Excitotoxins.- 16 Behavioral and Neuropathological Consequences of Chronic Exposure to Low Doses of the Dopaminergic Neurotoxin MPTP.- IV. Legal Issues.- 17 Courts, Agencies, and Social Risk Assessment.- Epilogue.