Veterinary Toxicology: Basic and Clinical Principles

Features:

 

• Provides a complete, up-to-date, integrated source of information on toxins and poisons relating to animals
• Covers all important aspects of veterinary toxicology with completely updated and revised chapters
• Includes basic principles of a key toxicology concept, along with clinical applications and a list of major references for further reading

Table Of Contents:

 

Section I: General

1. Concepts in veterinary toxicology

2. Toxicokinetics

3. Factors affecting chemical toxicity

4. Toxicological testing: in vivo and in vitro models

5. Epidemiology of animal poisonings in the United States

6. Epidemiology of animal poisonings in Europe

7. Epidemiology of animal poisonings in Asia

8. Chemicals of terrorism

9. Regulatory considerations in veterinary toxicology

10. Regulatory aspects for the drugs and chemicals used in food-producing animals in the European Union

11. Regulatory aspects for the drugs and chemicals used in Japan

12. Statistics in veterinary toxicology

13. Computational modeling in veterinary toxicology (New chapter)

14. Toxicology and the law

Section II: Organ Toxicity

15. Nervous system toxicity

16. Respiratory toxicity

17. Cardiovascular toxicity

18. Liver toxicity

19. Renal toxicity

20. Reproductive toxicity and endocrine disruption

21. Placental toxicity

22. Dermal toxicity

23. Blood and bone marrow toxicity

24. Immunotoxicity

Section III: Nanoparticles, Radiation and Carcinogens

25. Toxicity of nanomaterials

26. Ionizing radiation and radioactive materials in health and disease

27. Carcinogenesis: mechanisms and models

Section IV: Drugs of Use and Abuse

28. Toxicity of over-the-counter drugs

29. Toxicity of drugs of abuse

Section V: Metals and Micronutrients

30. Aluminum

31. Arsenic

32. Cadmium

33. Chromium, iodine and phosphorus

34. Copper

35. Fluoride

36. Iron

37. Lead

38. Manganese

39. Mercury

40. Molybdenum

41. Selenium

42. Sodium chloride (salt)

43. Sulfur

44. Zinc

Section VI: Insecticides and Molluscicides

45. Organophosphates and carbamates

46. Organochlorines

47. Pyrethrins and pyrethroids

48. Neonicotinoids

49. Amitraz

50. Fipronil

51. Macrocyclic lactone endectocides

52. Rotenone

53. Metaldehyde

Section VII: Herbicides and Fungicides

54. Toxicity of herbicides

55. Toxicity of fungicides

Section VIII: Rodenticides and Avicides

56. Anticoagulant rodenticides

57. Non-anticoagulant rodenticides

58. Avitrol

Section IX: Gases, Solvents and Other Industrial Toxicants

59. Toxic gases

60. Alcohols and glycols

61. Petroleum

62. Polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzofurans

63. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

64. Brominated flame retardants and perfluorinated chemicals

Section X: Environmental Toxicology

65. Principles of ecotoxicology

66. Avian toxicology

67. Aquatic toxicology

68. Toxicology and diversity of marine toxins

Section XI: Bacterial and Cyanobacterial Toxins

69. Botulinum neurotoxins

70. Enterotoxins

71. Cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) toxins

Section XII: Poisonous and Venomous Organisms

72. Terrestrial zootoxins

73. Mare reproductive loss syndrome

Section XIII: Estrogenic Toxicants

74. Chemical-induced estrogenicity

75. Phytoestrogens

Section XIV: Poisonous Plants

76. Poisonous plants of the USA

77. Poisonous plants of Europe

78. Poisonous plants of Australia and New Zealand

79. Cyanogenic plants

80. Nitrate and nitrite accumulating plants

81. Toxicity of yew (Taxus spp.) alkaloids

82. Oxalate-containing plants

83. Mushroom toxins

84. Datura species and related plants

85. Cottonseed toxicity

86. Fescue toxicosis

Section XV: Mycotoxins

87. Aflatoxins

88. Ergot

89. Fumonisins

90. Ochratoxins and citrinin

91. Slaframine

92. Tremorgenic mycotoxins

93. Trichothecenes

94. Zearalenone

Section XVI: Feed and Water Contaminants

95. Melamine and cyanuric acid

96. Ionophores

97. Nonprotein nitrogen (urea) and hyperammonemia

98. Water quality and contaminants

Section XVII: Diagnostic Toxicology

99. Basic concepts of analytical toxicology

100. Sample submission for toxicological analysis

101. Toxicoproteomics in diagnostic toxicology

102. Microscopic analysis of toxic substances in feeds and ingesta

Section XVIII: Prevention and Treatment

103. Prevention and treatment of poisoning