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WIT Press Environmental Toxicology v. 3 2010 Edition by V. Popov, C. A. Brebbia
Environmental toxicology is an interdisciplinary science, which integrates biology, microbiology, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, ecology and other sciences. Assessment of the environmental effects of chemicals is complicated as it depends on the organisms tested and involves not only the toxicity of individual chemicals, but also their interactive effects, genotoxicity, mutagenicity and immunotoxicity testing. Various stressors affect the environment sometimes showing synergistic effects, which are very difficult to quantify or predict. These threats require more experimental and theoretical developments in order to produce approaches for characterization and appropriate strategies and assays for screening in order to detect the harmful agents and prevent them from reaching the sensitive endpoints. This volume contains the edited versions of the papers presented at the third International Conference on Environmental Toxicology. The papers are grouped into the following broad subject areas: Environmental Health Risk; Ecosystem Health; Biodegradation, Bioremediation and Biomonitoring; New Trends in Environmental Toxicology. Table of Contents : Contents Section 1: Environmental health risk Toxicity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mixtures using human derived cells; Carcinogenesis in female C57Bl/6J mice chronically exposed to sodium arsenate (AsV) in drinking water for 2 years; Aspects to consider for selection of chemical risk assessment methodology: the case of formaldehyde occupational exposure; The possibility of removal of endocrine disrupters from paper mill waste waters using anaerobic and aerobic biological treatment, membrane bioreactor, ultra-filtration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation processes; Poultry fungal contamination as a public health problem; Factors controlling the release of arsenic from mining tailings; Correlation between cluster analyses of Salmonella strains isolated from diarrhetic patients in Kuwait and biofilm formation Section 2: Ecosystem health Hazardous substances in the water, biota and sediments of the North Estonian coastal sea; Controlling groundwater pollution from petroleum products leaks; Acute toxicity of lead nitrate to red swamp crayfish Section 3: Biodegradation, bioremediation and biomonitoring Biostimulation combined treatments for remediation of diesel contaminated soil; New isolation method of desiccation-tolerant microorganisms for the bioremediation of arid and semiarid soils; An evaluation of organopollutant biodegradation by some selected white rot fungi: an overview; Adaptation of bacterial biotests for monitoring mycotoxins; Role of fulvic acid on the reduction of cadmium toxicity on tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Section 4: New trends in environmental toxicology Technical issues surrounding the preparation, characterisation and testing of nanoparticles for ecotoxicological studies; High-throughput analysis of multiple stress pathways using GFP reporters in C. elegans