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Bioavailability from Environmental Media. No studies were located regarding the bioavailability of acrolein from environmental media. Since acrolein has been detected in ambient air and in food and beverages (ppb levels), it is important to determine if acrolein can be absorbed by humans from environmental samples. However, the chemical structure of acrolein makes it a highly reactive molecule, which presumably is why its effects are, for the most part, restricted to the area of exposure (i.e., respiratory system for inhalation exposure or localized skin damage for dermal exposure). The limited information available regarding absorption parameters of acrolein in experimental animals indicates that acrolein is easily retained in the respiratory airways however, virtually no information is available regarding absorption by the gastrointestinal tract or skin. Therefore, based on the data available, it is likely that inhalation of contaminated air will result in irritation of the eyes and respiratory tract. 

Despite the fact that immunoassays can be sensitive, specific and rapid, their application to detect compounds of environmental importance has been limited to relatively few laboratories (7-10). This symposium volume serves an important function since it focuses on the current status of the immunochemical methods being used for environmental analyses. Many of the accompanying papers consider the basic principles and essential steps in setting up immunoassays, i.e. the covalent linkage of small molecules to carrier proteins, immunization with these... 

Research developing environmental methods might consider the use of AA detection. Perhaps some of the more interesting are detectors that use inductively coupled plasma (ICP) as an energy source and either atomic emission (AE) or mass spectrometry (MS) as the detector. ICP-AE and ICP-MS are well-developed analytical tools. Once of the major advantages of these techniques is that mixture of metals can be analyzed without the need for separation. Thus, workers who use these instruments normally do not think about their use as detectors. However, ICP-AE and ICP-MS cannot determine the oxidation or chemical state of a particular metal ion. Some samples are quite important from a toxicological and environmental standpoint since the... 

In general, pollutants exist in the enviromnent at very low concentrations and, therefore, the detection of these pollutants becomes poor. The selective detection of pollutants in environmental samples is important, since many... 

In addition to tip shape considerations, other factors affect the applicability of this method. Some of these factors are adhesion hysteresis, interfadal adhesive energy between the tip and the sample, the relative stiffness of the cantilever and the sample, and environmental humidity. Since tins model to evaluate elasticity of a sample is based on the tip-sample adhesion behavior, the adhesion between the cantilever and the sample should be enough to deform the cantilever and the sample measurably as the tip is pulled away from the sample surface, yet not be so much that the induced cantilever deflection is over the detection limit of the AFM. The capillary effect, which results from the condensation of water around the tip on hydrophilic surfaces, can be important in determining the tip-sample behavior.However, its effert in hydrophobic polymers such as PDMS is minimal. 

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