Application of Short-Term Bioassays in the Fractionation and Analysis of Complex Environmental Mixtures

vi Williamsburg, Virginia, February 21-23, 1978. This symposium was sponsored by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Energy Minerals and Industry, Washington, DC, and Office of Health and Ecological Effects, Health Effects Re­ search Laboratory, Biochemistry Branch, Research Triangl...

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Other Authors: Waters, Michael D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1979, 1979
Edition:1st ed. 1979
Series:Environmental Science Research
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • In Vitro Activation of Cigarette Smoke Condensate Materials to Their Mutagenic Forms
  • Mutagenic, Carcinogenic, and Toxic Effects of Residual Organics in Drinking Water
  • Mutagenic Analysis of Complex Samples of Aqueous Effluents, Air Particulates, and Foods
  • Section 1: Short-Term Bioassay Systems—An Overview
  • The Use of Microbial Assay Systems in the Detection of Environmental Mutagens in Complex Mixtures
  • Mutagenesis of Mammalian Cells by Chemical Carcinogens After Metabolic Activation
  • Oncogenic Transformation of Mammalian Cells by Chemicals and Viral-Chemical Interactions
  • Higher Plant Systems as Monitors of Environmental Mutagens
  • The Role of Drosophila in Chemical Mutagenesis Testing
  • The Cellular Toxicity of Complex Environmental Mixtures
  • Section 2: Collection and Chemical Analysis of Environmental Samples
  • Atmospheric Genotoxicants—What Numbers Do We Collect?
  • State-of-the-Art Analytical Techniques for Ambient Vapor Phase Organics and Volatile Organics in Aqueous Samples from Energy-Related Activities
  • Strategy for Collection of Drinking Water Concentrates
  • Section 3: Current Research
  • Short-term Bioassay of Complex Organic Mixtures: Part I, Chemistry
  • Short-term Bioassay of Complex Organic Mixtures: Part II, Mutagenicity Testing
  • Quantitative Mammalian Cell Genetic Toxicology: Study of the Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity of Seventy Individual Environmental Agents Related to Energy Technologies and Three Subfractions of a Crude Synthetic Oil in the CHO/HGPRT System
  • Environmental Testing
  • Integrating Microbiological and Chemical Testing into the Screening of Air Samples for Potential Mutagenicity
  • Chemical and Microbiological Studies of Mutagenic Pollutants in Real and Simulated Atmospheres
  • Application of Bioassay to the Characterization of Diesel Particle Emissions
  • Measurement of Biological Activity of Ambient Air Mixtures Using a Mobile Laboratory for In Situ Exposures: Preliminary Results from the Tradescantia Plant Test System
  • Physical and Biological Studies of Coal Fly Ash.-Mutagenicity of Shale Oil Components
  • Mutagenic Analysis of Drinking Water