Nanotoxicity

Nanotoxicity: From in vivo and in vitro Models to Health Risks provides up-to-date state-of-the-art information presented by recognized experts in this emerging new field in toxicology. It discusses the safety evaluation of nanomaterials in foods, drugs, medical devices, cosmetics and other regulated products and its use in risk analysis for potential regulatory use. Topics covered include:

• biomarkers for nanotoxicity assessment
• nanotoxicity assessment by gene expression analysis
• in vivo and in vitro models for nanotoxicity testing
• mechanisms of nanotoxicity
• pharmakokinetics of nanomaterials
• nanotoxicity of foods including food processing, food packaging and food safety
• nanotoxicity of drugs including drug development and drug delivery
• nanotoxicity of cosmetics and consumer products
• health and environmental impact of nanotoxicity
• safety evaluation of nanomaterials
• regulatory impact of nanomaterials

Nanotoxicity: From in vivo and in vitro Models to Health Risks is a valuable authoritative source of information for readers from a wide range of disciplines such as toxicology, pharmacology, drug toxicity and food and environmental sciences. The book will be useful to the research community in academia, industry, hospitals and government, as well as to government regulators and risk assessors of foods, drugs and environmental and agricultural products.

Dr. Saura C. Sahu, Research Chemist, Division of Toxicology, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Sahu is the US Editor for the Journal of Applied Toxicology and the editor of Hepatotoxicity (Wiley, Dec 2007), and Toxicogenomics (Wiley, Oct 2008).

Professor Daniel A. Casciano, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Professor Casciano was former director of the US Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Arkansas, USA.