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Author:   Frank M. Butterworth ,  Amara Gunatilaka ,  María Eugenia Gonsebatt
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Volume:   56
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.186kg
ISBN:  

9780306463877

ISBN 10:   0306463873
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   31 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- Section I: Automated Monitoring: On-Line Monitoring.- 2. A Brief Review of Chemical and Biological Continuous Monitoring of Rivers in Europe and Asia.- 3. The Evaluation of “Dynamic Daphnia Test” after a Decade of Use: Benefits and Constraints.- 4. The “Musselmonitor®” as Biological Early Warning System: The First Decade.- 5. Quantitative Behavior Analysis—A New Approach to the Challenges of Environmental Toxicology.- 6. An Introduction to Behavioral Monitoring—Effects of Nonylphenol and Ethinyl-Estradiol on Swimming Behavior of Juvenile Carp.- 7. How to Use Fish Behavior Analysis to Sensitively Assess the Hazard Potentials of Environmental Chemicals.- 8. Continuous Water Monitoring: Changes of Behavior Patterns as Indicators of Pollutants.- Automation Technologies.- 9. Restoration and Classification of Water-Borne Microbial Images for Continuous Monitoring of Water Quality.- 10. Screen-printed Disposable Biosensors for Environmental Pollution Monitoring.- 11. Optical Sensors and Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring.- Section II: Recombination and Recombinogen Detection.- 12. Recombination as Indicator for Genotoxic and “Non-genotoxic” Environmental Carcinogens.- 13. Somatic Mutation and Recombination Test in Drosophila Used for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollutants.- 14. A New Way to View Complex Mixtures: Measurement of Genotoxic Effects of Mixtures of a Polychlorinated Biphenyl, a Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon, and Arsenic.- 15. Drosophila is a Reliable Biomonitor of Water Pollution.- Section III: New Approaches and Applications of Established Systems: Sentinel Systems.- 16. A New Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor for Ecologically Relevant Supervision of Surface Waters.- 17. Cytogenetic and Cytotoxic Damage in Exfoliated Cells asIndicators of Effects in Humans.- 18. p53 Mutation Load: a Molecular Linkage to Carcinogen Exposure and Cancer.- 19. Plant Biomonitors in Aquatic Environments: Assessing Impairment via Plant Performance.- 20. Fish Chromosomes as Biomarkers of Genotoxic Damage and Proposal for the Use of Tropical Catfish Species for Short-term Screening of Genotoxic Agents.- Laboratory-Based Biomonitors.- 21. The Tetramitus Assay.- 22. The Use of Aquatic Invertebrate Toxicity Tests and Invertebrate Enzyme Biomarkers to Assess Toxicity in the States of Aguascalientes and Jalisco, Mexico.- 23. Biomonitoring of Pesticides by Plant Metabolism: an Assay Based on the Induction of Sister-Chromatid Exchanges in Human Lymphocyte Cultures by Promutagen Activation of Vicia faba.- 24. Genetic Monitoring of Airborne Particles.- Section IV: Abstracts.- 25. Abstracts of presentations not submitted as chapters.

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