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Herzog, E. et al. (2009) Dispersion medium modulates oxidative stress response of human lung epithelial cells upon exposure to carbon nanomaterial samples. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 236 (3), 276-281. 

Fent, K. (2001) Fish cell lines as versatile tools in ecotoxicology assessment of cytotoxicity, cytochrome P4501A induction potential and estrogenic activity of chemicals and environmental samples. Toxicology In Vitro, 15, 477 188. 

Other Substances. Driving under the influence of alcohol cases are compHcated because people sometimes consume alcohol with other substances (11—13). The most common iUicit substances taken with alcohol are marijuana and cocaine (see Table 1) (14). In combination with alcohol, some dmgs have an additive effect. When a blood or urine alcohol sample is tested for alcohol and the result is well below the legal concentration threshold yet the test results are not consistent with the arresting officers observation that the subject was stuporous, further toxicological tests for the possible presence of dmgs are indicated. 

An example is poly(bis(p-carboxyphenoxy)propane) (PCPP) which has been prepared as a copolymer with various levels of sebacic anhydride (SA). Injection molded samples of poly (anhydride) / dmg mixtures display 2ero-order kinetics in both polymer erosion and dmg release. Degradation of these polymers simply releases the dicarboxyhc acid monomers (54). Preliminary toxicological evaluations showed that the polymers and degradation products had acceptable biocompatibiUty and did not exhibit cytotoxicity or mutagenicity (55). 

In the future, the preventive tole of toxicology will be emphasized. It will be increasingly important to develop early indicators to monitor longterm subtle exposures that predict deleterious effects that are known to have a causal relationship with occupational exposures. In addition to collection of blood and urine samples, also collection of cells from points of... 

Such yes/no decisions are of great importance in foodstuffs control and environmental analysis. They also play an important role in pharmacy in the form of content uniformity tests. Without suitable screening methods for rapid detection of positive samples it would scarcely be possible to carry out economic doping controls and toxicological investigations or to recognize medicament abuse. 

Hill-Top Toxicology (1978) Extended acute oral LD50 studies of nine samples. Hill-Top Toxicology, 26 May (Reference 77-1094-21). 

GC/MS has been employed by Demeter et al. (1978) to quantitatively detect low-ppb levels of a- and P-endosulfan in human serum, urine, and liver. This technique could not separate a- and P-isomers, and limited sensitivity confined its use to toxicological analysis following exposures to high levels of endosulfan. More recently, Le Bel and Williams (1986) and Williams et al. (1988) employed GC/MS to confirm qualitatively the presence of a-endosulfan in adipose tissue previously analyzed quantitatively by GC/ECD. These studies indicate that GC/MS is not as sensitive as GC/ECD. Mariani et al. (1995) have used GC in conjunction with negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry to determine alpha- and beta-endosulfan in plasma and brain samples with limits of detection reported to be 5 ppb in each matrix. Details of commonly used analytical methods for several types of biological media are presented in Table 6-1. 

Jansson, B., Andersson, R., and Asplund, L. et al. (1993). Chlorinated and brominated persistent organic compounds in biological samples from the environment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 12, 1163-1174. 

Principles and Characteristics The fastest growing area in elemental analysis is in the use of hyphenated techniques for speciation measurement. Elemental spe-ciation analysis, defined as the qualitative identification and quantitative determination of the individual chemical forms that comprise the total concentration of an element in a sample, has become an important field of research in analytical chemistry. Speciation or the process yielding evidence of the molecular form of an analyte, has relevance in the fields of food, the environment, and occupational health analysis, and involves analytical chemists as well as legislators. The environmental and toxicological effects of a metal often depend on its forms. The determination of the total metal content... 

In most unfavourable cases of the chemical practice, not even the number n of the species is known, e.g., in so-called general unknown cases in toxicological analytics. Then, at first, it has to be tested by a powerful separation method, e.g. chromatography, how many components are present in the sample before they are identified. For this an information part... 

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