Carmel Mothersill Libri

Focusing on in vitro methods, this groundbreaking book explores the toxicology of various pollutants in aquatic environments, such as heavy metals and estrogenic compounds. It emphasizes the development and validation of standardized techniques for substance and species-specific experiments, enabling controlled studies. Additionally, it offers insights into mechanistic approaches that minimize individual variation and environmental stress, making it an essential resource for researchers in environmental toxicology.

This book, the first of its kind in this subject area, will focus on in vitro approaches to the study of the toxicology of polluting agents (including heavy metals, radionuclides, micro-organics, estrogenic compounds, and complex mixtures) in the aquatic environment. The importance of in vitro methods is that they allow standardised techniques to be developed and validated for substance and species specific experiments in a controlled way. Also, they allow mechanistic studies without the problems of individual variation between animals and environmental stress.

This title on aquatic invertebrate cell culture has major applications in aquaculture, ecotoxicology and pathology. It aims to consider all relevant advances for the development of aquatic invertebrate cell culture.