Frank R. Blood (EDT) Essays in Toxicology

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Essays in Toxicology, Volume 2 covers essays on toxicology and related topics. The book presents essays on fungal toxins, such as mycotoxin, aflatoxin, moldy corn toxicoses, alimentary toxic aleukia, ochratoxin, sporidesmin, zearalenone and other estrogenic compounds, pink rot dermatitis, and slaframine. The text also includes essays on hyperbilirubinemia and cholestasis induced by alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate, taurolithocholic acid, and 2-ethyl-2-phenyl butyramide, as different forms of liver injury produced in animals. The evolution of pesticide analyses is also encompassed. Biochemists, physiologists, pathologists, and microbiologists will find the book invaluable.