CRC Press Lu's Basic Toxicology: Fundamentals, Target Organs, and Risk Assessment, Seventh Edition

Continuing a long tradition, Lu’s Basic Toxicology, Seventh Edition, combines relatively comprehensive coverage of toxic substances in food, air, and water with brevity, thereby continuing to serve as an updated introductory text for toxicology students and for those involved in allied sciences that require a background in toxicology. The new edition, which now becomes an edited work with contributions from experts around the globe, features four new chapters and a number of existing chapters that have been updated and expanded, notably those on mechanisms of toxic effects, conventional toxicity studies, the cardiovascular system, and risk assessment and regulatory toxicology. The book consists of four parts (Part I–Part IV) that provide guidance on principles of toxicology and testing procedures for toxicities as well as a concise, yet detailed, mechanism of both target organ and nontarget organ toxicities. The book is rounded off with a final section (Part IV) on the toxic effects of chemicals and risk assessment, giving toxicologists, both students and practicing professionals, the necessary tools to enhance their practice. This edition includes new chapters on Clinical Toxicology, Systems Toxicology, Chemicals and Children, and Toxicology of Reproductive Systems, providing the essentials of these topics in the same style as the other chapters in the book. With separate subject and chemical indexes, this is a useful, quick shelf reference for everyone working in toxicology today. About the Author Byung-Mu Lee, BS, MS, MSPH, Dr PH, Division of Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, is associate editor of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, associate editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology, editorial board member of Environmental Health Perspectives, and advisory editor of Archives of Toxicology. He is currently the vice president of the International Association of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (IAEMGS). He is the author of 230 papers, reviews, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, and 11 book chapters, as well as the coauthor of Lu’s Basic Toxicology, Sixth Edition (Informa, 2013). Prof. Lee has also been a research advisor of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, a committee advisor for the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Human Health and Welfare in South Korea. He has been the president of the 13th International Congress of Toxicology (ICT XIII), the Korea Society of Toxicology (KSOT), and the Korea Environmental Mutagen Society (KEMS). He has been the vice president of the Asia Society of Toxicology (ASIATOX). He has organized eight workshops and three international symposia about toxicology, carcinogenesis, chemoprevention, endocrine disruption, and risk assessment. He has been a nominating committee member of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX) and deputy member of the Korean Pharmaceutical Society. Prof. Lee has received numerous awards, including the Young Scientist Award, Brookhaven Symposium (U.S.), the Yun Ho Lee Award of Scientific Merit (International Aloe Science Council (U.S.) and the Merit Award from the Minister, Ministry of Food Drug Safety (Republic of Korea). Prof. Lee’s research areas include: carcinogenesis, chemoprevention, endocrine disruption, molecular epidemiology, biomarkers, systems toxicology, and risk assessment/management.Sam Kacew, PhD, ATS, is an associate director of Toxicology, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa; professor of pharmacology, University of Ottawa; and scientist, Institute for Population Health, University of Ottawa. Prof. Kacew is a visiting professor at the following institutions: the University of Guildford in Surrey, England; a Colgate-Palmolive visiting professor at the University of New Mexico; Institute of Toxicology at National Taiwan Uni