Full Description
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Immunotoxicology held at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, 14-23 July 1982
Contents
1. Immunotoxicology: Bridging a Discipline or two.- 2. Assessing the Effects of Chemicals on Humoral Immune Function.- 3. Immune Cells and their Modulation by Exogenous Substances.- 4. Benzene-Induced Immunotoxicity: The Lymphocyte as a Tool for Studying Subcellular Mechanisms of Toxicity.- 5. Environmental Estrogens and their Effect on Immune Responses.- 6. Immunosuppression by the Tumor Promoting Phorbol Diester TPA: A Possible Epigenetic Mechanism in Carcinogenesis.- 7. Drug Allergies: Factors Influencing Induction and Diagnosis.- 8. Immunopharmacokinetics: The Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Immunoregulating Drugs.- 9. The Humoral Immunotoxicological Effects of Phenytoin - an Anticonvulsant Drug with Nonlinear Pharmacokinetics.- 10. Viral Infection and Xenobiotic Metabolism.- 11. Applications of Liposomes in Immunopotentiation.- 12. Nutritional Considerations in Immunotoxicology.- 13. Risk-Benefit Assessment in Immunotoxicology.- 14. Immunotoxicology: The Viewpoint of an Industrial Immunologist.
