The Cellular Response to the Genotoxic Insult: The Question of Threshold for Genotoxic Carcinogens - Couverture rigide

 
9781849731775: The Cellular Response to the Genotoxic Insult: The Question of Threshold for Genotoxic Carcinogens
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1849731772 ISBN 13 : 9781849731775
Editeur : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

Synopsis

This book considers the exposure levels at which genotoxins pose a risk and describes the cellular mechanisms used against them.

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À propos de l?auteur

Helmut Greim is a toxicologist and former chair of the Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His research experience is drug metabolism, toxicokinetics, mechanisms of carcinogenic agents, in vitro test systems. He has been member or chair of numerous national and international scientific committees. In 1996 he received the Arnold Lehman Award of SOT and in 2001 the Herbert Stockinger Award of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. At present he chairs the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks of the DG SANCO, Brussels, is member of the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits of DG EMPLOYMENT, Luxembourg and member of the Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Albertini is currently Research Professor of Pathology at the University of Vermont (USA). He retired from the Department of Medicine at that University in 2000 and is now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine. He received the M.D. degree in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics in 1972, both from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). Dr. Albertini joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont that same year, becoming full Professor in 1979. He was clinically active in the areas of oncology, hematology and AIDS for many years and served as Director of the Vermont Cancer Center from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Albertini's fundamental research has been and remains in the area of mutagenesis and the relationship of somatic mutations to cancer. In the past, Dr. Albertini served as President of the Environmental Mutagen Society and as editor-in-chief of Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis.

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Éditeur
Royal Society of Chemistry
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849731772
ISBN 13 
9781849731775
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
334
Éditeur
Greim Helmut, Albertini Richard
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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