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Book SynopsisChromium in the Natural and Human Environments Edited by Jerome O. Nriagu and Evert Nieboer Essential reading for researchers and students of environmental and occupational health effects of metals. --The Science of the Total Environment Representing the most comprehensive coverage to date on the uses of chromium, its sources (both natural and anthropogenic), and occurrence in the air, water, and soil, this timely volume addresses the growing concern about chromium''s ultimate effect on the environment. The toxicity of chromium to terrestrial and aquatic biota is examined in relation to its chemistry and biochemistry, with discussion of toxicological models of chromium hypersensitivity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and toxicokinetics. Features include graphical representation of the voluminous mutagenicity and animal carcinogenicity data according to chromium compound type. 1988 (0 471-85643-6) 571 pp. Cadmium in the Aquatic Environment Edited by Jerome O. Nriagu and John B. Sprague
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
Biological Utilization of Nickel (R. Hausinger).
Occupational Exposures to Nickel (E. Nieboer).
Toxicokinetics of Nickel in Humans (F. Sunderman).
Urinary Excretion of Nickel in Nickel-Chromium Electroplaters (M.White & A. Boran).
Renal Toxicity of Nickel in Humans (W. Sanford & E.Nieboer).
Nickel Contact Hypersensitivity (T. Menne).
Nickel and The Immune System: Current Concepts (S. Nicklin & G.Nielsen).
Role of Ni(II) in Mutation (N. Christie, et al.).
Animal Studies: An Overview (K. Kasprzak).
Inhalation Toxicity of Nickel Compounds (J. Dunnick, et al.).
Nickel-Induced Derangements of Thermoregulation (S. Hopfer & F.Sunderman).
Placental Metabolism of Nickel (B. Sarkar, et al.).
Recent Follow-up of Nickel Refinery Workers in Norway andRespiratory Cancer (A. Andersen).
Index.
