Medical Toxicology: Proceedings Of The 1991 Eurotox Congress Meeting Held In Masstricht, September 1 - 4, 1991 (archives Of Toxicology)

The book contains reviews and posters of the 31st Congress of the EUROTOX (Maastricht 1991). - Forensic Toxicology - Drug Toxicology - Environmental Toxicology Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Medical Toxicology in Europe: Present and Future....Pages 3-11 Medical Toxicology — Clinical aspects....Pages 12-19 Research Aspects in Clinical Toxicology....Pages 20-25 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Diagnosis in Clinical Toxicology....Pages 29-39 Haemoperfusion, Indications and Side-Effects....Pages 40-49 Accidental Poisoning with Hydrocarbon Products in Children During Six Months 1989....Pages 50-53 Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment of Patients Chronically Exposed to Organic Solvents....Pages 54-57 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 Risk Assessment — Scientific Aspects....Pages 61-72 Industrial Aspects of Risk Assessment....Pages 73-74 Risk Assessment: Governmental Aspects....Pages 75-82 Communicating About Toxicological Risks....Pages 83-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Health Risk Assessment of Long Term Exposure to Chemicals: Application to Cadmium and Manganese....Pages 97-102 Animal Studies for Prediction of Chronic Toxicity....Pages 103-112 Toxicological Evaluation of Dimethomorph: Basis for Assessment of Risks from Dietary Exposure....Pages 113-116 Chronic Exposure to Vanadate as Factor of Arterial Hypertension in the Rat: Toxicodynamic Mechanisms....Pages 117-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Dermal Toxicology....Pages 123-129 Cycads, Designer Drugs, Free Radicals and Neurodegenerative Disease....Pages 130-139 Electrophysiological and Flow Cytometric Studies on Mechanism of Gentamicin Nephrotoxicity in Cultured Renal Cells....Pages 140-143 Selective Cellular Toxicity After Exposure to 4-Ipomeanol, Bromobenzene (BrBz) and 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-Pyridyl)-1-Butanone (NNK) in Rat Lungs....Pages 144-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Decreased Hepatic Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Gene Expression after 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo- p -dioxin Treatment: Implications for the Acute Toxicity of Chlorinated Dibenzo- p -dioxins in the Rat....Pages 151-155 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Co-Cultures of Rat Hepatocytes in the Study of Valproate Toxicity....Pages 156-159 Selenium-Silver Interaction in Mice....Pages 160-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Environmental Impact on Domestic and Wild Animals: Field Data from a Veterinary Anti-Poison Center....Pages 167-171 Blood Mercury and Serum Selenium Concentrations in Reindeer Herders in the Arctic Area of Northern Finland....Pages 172-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Natural Syndromes in Dogs....Pages 179-186 Inducible thyroid lesions in the rat with special reference to mediation or interactions with other organ systems....Pages 187-196 Mesulergine Induced Leydig Cell Tumours, a Syndrome Involving the Pituitary-Testicular Axis of the Rat....Pages 197-204 Variations in Prevalence of Endocrine Tumors Among Different Colonies of Rats? A Retrospective Study in the Hannover Registry Data Base....Pages 205-214 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Biologically Based Modeling in Toxicology Research....Pages 217-227 QSAR Studies in Genetic Toxicology: Congeneric and Non Congeneric Chemicals....Pages 228-237 Quantitative and Qualitative Structure Activity Relationships in Developmental Toxicity....Pages 238-248 Multi-Compartment Model to Study the Effect of Air-Blood and Blood-Tissue Partition Coefficients on Concentration-Time-Effect Relationships....Pages 249-252 Concepts for Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Modelling in Clinical Toxicology: Application to Acute Cardiac Glycoside Intoxications....Pages 253-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Analytical Forensic Toxicology....Pages 259-267 Biological Effect Monitoring....Pages 268-277 Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Bitumen Fumes During Road Paving Operations....Pages 278-281 Toxicological Investigations on Unusual Materials (Hair and Vitreous Humor): Interest and Limitations....Pages 282-285 Front Matter....Pages 287-287 Ethylene Oxide: Metabolism in Human Blood and Its Implication to Biological Monitoring....Pages 289-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-291