Vanda Maria Falcão Es Lopes de Andrade

Biomarkers of Toxic Metals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The current exposure of human populations to toxic metals makes the prevention and control of such exposures crucial. Biomarkers are undoubtably recognized as vital tools to achieve these goals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781032039381
• ISBN-10: 1032039388
• Artikelnr.: 68102335

Autorenporträt

Vanda Maria Falcão Espada Lopes de Andrade has a PhD in Pharmacy/Toxicology with her thesis devoted to biomarkers in Occupational Toxicology. Currently is Invited Adjunct Professor in the Santarém Agrarian School of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, where she is regent of curricular units focusing on Analytical, Food and Environmental Toxicology. Her research activity in the Life Quality Research Centre (CIEQV) and in the Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa) have been mainly devoted to metal biomarkers and metal food contamination.

Inhaltsangabe

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. Metals: Pollution and Health Impacts. Biomarkers,
an Overview. Application Fields of Metal Biomarkers. BIOMARKERS OF
XENOBIOTIC METALS. Aluminium. Arsenic. Cadmium. Chromium. Lead. Mercury.
BIOMARKERS OF ESSENTIAL METALS WITH POTENTIAL FOR TOXICITY. Copper. Iron.
Magnesium. Manganese. Zinc. NOVEL TRENDS IN METALS BIOMARKERS. Biomarkers
of Metal Mixtures. Multibiomarker Approaches.