Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons
The new nine edition is available from bookstores and Amazon. You can order book or Kindle version at Amazon.
Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Ninth Edition is logically divided into seven sections:
- General Principles of Toxicology
- Disposition of Toxicants
- Non-Organ Directed Toxicity
- Target Organ Toxicity
- Toxic Agents
- Environmental Toxicology
- Applications of Toxicology
Many new contributors capture the progress made in toxicology over the past few years:
This edition is markedly updated from the previous edition, with more than one-third of the chapters authored by scientists who have not made previous contributions to the book. Sharing their expertise, they deliver dynamic new coverage of the importance of apoptosis, autophagy, cytokines, growth factors, oncogenes, cell cycling, receptors, gene regulation, protective mechanisms, repair mechanisms, transcription factors, signaling pathways, transgenic mice, knock-out mice, humanized mice, polymorphisms, microarray technology, second-generation sequencing, genomics, proteomics, epigenetics, exposome, microbiota, read across, adverse outcome pathways, high-content screening, computational toxicology, innovative test methods, and organ-on-a-chip in understanding the mechanisms of toxicity and the regulation of chemicals.