Handbook of pesticide toxicology.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krieger, Robert Irving, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Academic, [2001]
Edition:Second edition /
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Principles
  • Dose, time, 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
  • Vertebrate pest control chemicals and their use in urban and rural environments
  • Pesticide use in veterinary medicine
  • Pesticide use practices in integrated pest management
  • Toxicity testing
  • Regulatory evaluation of the skin effects of pesticides
  • Neurophysiological effects 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 sections on modeling aggregate and cumulative exposure
  • Greenhouse and mushroom house exposure
  • Coping with aggregate pesticide exposure assessment : an integration approach
  • Occupational exposure databases/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 toxicology 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
  • v. 2. Agents
  • Chemistry of organophosphorus insecticides
  • 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
  • Carbamate insecticides
  • Aldicarb : current science-based approaches in risk assessment
  • Imidacloprid : a neonicotinoid insecticide
  • Interactions with the gamma-aminobutyric 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, paresthesia, 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 (2,4-D)
  • Dicamba
  • Imidazolinones
  • Toxicology of triazolopyrimidine herbicides
  • Inhibitors of aromatic acid biosynthesis
  • Inhibitors of DNA biosynthesis-mitosis : benzimidazoles - the benzimidazole fungicides benomyl and carbendazim
  • Cyprodinil : a fungicide of the anilinopyrimidine class
  • Captan and folpet
  • Mammalian toxicokinetics and toxicity of chlorothalonil
  • Dialkyldithiocarbamates (EBDCs)
  • A toxicological assessment of sulfur as a pesticide
  • Rodenticides
  • Methyl bromide
  • 1,3-dichloropropene
  • Phosphine
  • Metam-sodium
  • Sulfuyl fluoride