1st Edition

Target Organ Toxicity Volume 2

Edited By Gerald M. Cohen Copyright 1986
234 Pages
by CRC Press

234 Pages
by CRC Press

First published in 1986: This two-volume set provides essential information on the general princi-ples of target organ toxicity. Pharmacokinetics, metabolic activation and key defense mechanisms, excretion, species variation, and tissue-specific biochemistry are explored comprehensively. These general principles are then illustrated using specific examples of toxicity to different target organs... Read more

1. The Kidney as a Target Organ for Toxicity

Glenn F. Rush and Jerry B. Hook

2. Cardiac Toxicity

T. Balazs et al.

3. The Lung as a Target Organ for Toxicity

Lewis L. Smith and Benoit Nemery

4. Target Organ Toxicity: The Male Reproductive System

H.D.M. Moore

5. Toxic Effects on the Female Reproductive System

Michael H. Briggs

6. The Eye

Ralph Heywood

7. The Inner Ear

Ernest S. Harpur

8. The Endocrine Pancreas as a Target Organ for Toxicity

Willy J. Malaise

9. Structural DNA Modifications and DNA Repair in Organ-Specific Tumor Induction

P. Kleihues and Otmar Wiestler

10. Organ Specificity in Tumor Initiation and Comple Carcinogenesis (Including Species Variation)

Maurice M. Coombs

Biography

Gerald M. Cohen Ph.D. is Head of the Toxicology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy, University of London.