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Document ID (ISN)33823
CIS number 80-1334
ISBN(s) 0-471-27690-1
Year 1980
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Brown V.K.
Title Acute toxicity in theory and practice, with special reference to the toxicology of pesticides.
Bibliographic information John Wiley and Sons Limited, Shripney, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, United Kingdom, PO 22 95A, 1980. 159p. 950 ref. Price: £10.00.
Abstract Contents of this book: definitions; justification of the need for more acute toxicity information for pesticides; responses (non-specific, reactive, highly specific, requiring modification of the substance, additive, greater than additive, antagonistic); test animals; dose and dosage (dose-effect relation, concentration-time of exposure relation, influence of formulation, influence of vehicle, multiple exposure); types and routes of exposure (including occupational).
Descriptors (primary) acute toxicity; toxicology; pesticides
Descriptors (secondary) routes of entry; metabolic process; dose-response relationship; animal experiments; synergism; manuals
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Toxicology
Agricultural chemicals