- An Introduction to Particle Toxicology: From Coal Mining to Nanotechnology
- Mineralogy and Structure of Pathogenic Particles
- Particle Dosimetry: Deposition and Clearance from the Respiratory Tract and Translocation towards Extra-Pulmonary Sites
- Particulate Air Pollutants and Small Airway Remodeling
- Particle-Mediated Extracellular Oxidative Stress in the Lung
- Particles and Cellular Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress
- Interaction of Particles with Membranes
- Particle-Associated Metals and Oxidative Stress in Signaling
- Proinflammatory Effects of Particles on Macrophages and Epithelial Cells
- Cell-Signaling Pathways Elicited by Particulates
- Particle-Associated Organics and Proinflammatory Signaling
- The Asbestos Model of Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis: TNF-a and TGF-b1 as Mediators of Asbestos-Induced Lung Fibrogenesis
- Effects of Particles on the Immune System
- Effects of Particles on the Cardiovascular System
- Susceptibility to Particle Effects
- Genotoxic Effects of Particles
- Approaches to the Toxicological Testing of Particles
- Models for Testing the Pulmonary Toxicity of Particles: Lund Bioassay Screening Studies in Male Rats with a New Formulation of TiO2 Particulates
- Air Pollution and Human Brain Pathology: A Role for Air Pollutants in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Biologically-Based Lung Dosimetry and Exposure-Dose-Response Models for Poorly Soluble Inhaled Particles
- Nanoparticles in Medicine
- The Toxicology of Inhaled Particles: Summing Up an Emerging Conceptual Framework
- KEN DONALDSON is Professor of Respiratory Toxicology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- PAUL BORM is Director of Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, Hogeschool Zuyd, Heerlen, The Netherlands. He is Member of Member of EuroTox, the Dutch Society of Toxicology, and the German Society of Toxcicology. Dr. Borm is also Editor-in-Chief of Particle and Fibre Toxicology and serves on the editorial board of Inhalation Toxicology, Human & Experimental Toxicology, NanoToxicology, and the Journal of NanoEducation.
Inhalation Toxicology
“The strength of this book lies in its in-depth coverage of particle toxicology in terms of models, methods, risk assessment, and health effects….The authors are to be congratulated for taking on this difficult but important task and carrying it out so well…”
