Toxicity of Environmental Contaminants

Toxicity of Environmental Contaminants

1Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division, CSIR-NEERI, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India 2Department of Civil Engineering, Center for Environmental Engineering Research and Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 3Centre for Plant and Water Science, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia 4Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical Univ...

The Future of Toxicity Testing for Environmental Contaminants

Guest Editorial | The future of toxicity testing Toxicity testing and assessment sit on the cusp of a transformational change brought about by the rapid emergence of tools and capabilities in molecular biology and computational and informational sciences. This transformation has the potential to dramatically reshape the philosophy and approaches underlying toxicity testing and the assessment of...

Chronic toxicity of environmental contaminants: sentinels and biomarkers.

Due to the use of a limited number of species and subchronic exposures, current ecological hazard assessment processes can underestimate the chronic toxicity of environmental contaminants resulting in adverse responses of sentinel species. Several incidences where sentinel species have responded to the effects of chronic exposure to ambient levels of environmental contaminants are discussed, in...

Environmental Contaminants in Food

Pmn-16: The Effect of Environmental Contaminants on Testicular Function

Male reproductive health has deteriorated considerably in the last few decades. Nutritional, socioeconomic, lifestyle and environmental factors (among others) have been attributed to compromising male reproductive health. In recent years, a large volume of evidence has accumulated that suggests that the trend of decreasing male fertility (in terms of sperm count, quality and other changes in ma...