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Role of Inflammation in Environmental Neurotoxicity

  • 1st Edition, Volume 3 - January 22, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Michael Aschner, Lucio G. Costa
  • Language: English

Role of Inflammation in Environmental Neurotoxicity, Volume Three, in this comprehensive serial, addresses contemporary advances in neurotoxicology by providing authorita… Read more

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Role of Inflammation in Environmental Neurotoxicity, Volume Three, in this comprehensive serial, addresses contemporary advances in neurotoxicology by providing authoritative review articles on key issues in the field. Edited by leading subject experts, topics of note in this new release include Neuroinflammation (Introduction), Organophosphates, Lead, Manganese, Drugs of abuse, Peripheral vs central inflammation, Air pollution, Developmental neurotoxicity, Ethanol, and the Blood brain barrier, amongst other topics.

Key features

  • Provides a unique, first of its kind resource
  • Contributed to by world leaders in neurotoxicology
  • Contains a diversity of topics (from molecular to epidemiology) in neurotoxicology

Readership

Academic researchers, research scientists and graduate students in universities and in industry

Table of contents

1. An Introduction to Innate Immunity in the Central Nervous System
Gaylia Jean Harry

2. Neuroinflammation in Organophosphate-Induced Neurotoxicity
Pamela J. Lein

3. Neuroimmunotoxicology of The Heavy Metal Toxicant Lead
David Lawrence

4. The Role of Manganese in Neuroinflammation
Anumantha G. Kanthasamy

5. Inflammatory Mechanisms of Abused Drugs
Bryan Yamamoto

6. Overview of Peripheral and Central Inflammatory Responses and their Contribution to Neurotoxicity
Nick Filipov

7. Neurotoxicity of Air Pollution: Role of Neuroinflammation
L. Costa and Lucio G. Costa

8. The role of neuroinflammation in developmental neurotoxicity, tackling complexity in children’s exposures and outcomes
Amedeo D'Angiulli

9. Role of Neuroinflammation in Ethanol Neurotoxicity
Consuelo Guerri

10. Blood-Brain Barrier at the Interface of Air pollution-Associated Neurotoxicity and Neuroinflammation
Matthew J. Campen

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 3
  • Published: January 22, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Michael Aschner

Dr. Michael Aschner is currently the Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Molecular Pharmacology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he is also a Professor in the Departments of Molecular Pharmacology, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics. He is a leading expert in neurotoxicology and neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. In addition to serving as a past president of the Society of Toxicology (2022-23), he served on numerous toxicology panels (U.S. EPA and CDC), been an expert reviewer for multiple federal agencies in the US and abroad, and is a member of the Neurotoxicology and Alcohol study section (NIH). He is a past recipient of the prestigious Society of Toxicology Merit Award (2010) and the Distinguished Neurotoxicologist Award (2020). He is a co-editor of the Elsevier series, Advancements in Neurotoxicology in addition to edited other Elsevier titles. He has published numerous articles and has served as an associate editor for multiple high impact factor journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

LC

Lucio G. Costa

Dr. Lucio G. Costa is Professor of Toxicology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and of Pharmacology/Toxicology at the University of Parma Medical School. He received a doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Milano in 1977, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Houston. He is a member of several national and international professional organizations, a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, and a European Certified Toxicologist. He received various award for his scientific accomplishments, including the Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology. He serves in various editorial capacities for several toxicology journals, and is an active manuscript and grant reviewer. Dr. Costa has been the member of dozens of panels and committees at the national and international level dealing with toxicology and risk assessment issues. He has chaired and/or organized symposia at scientific meetings in the United States and internationally. He has been teaching classes in the area of toxicology, neurotoxicology and pharmacology to graduate and medical students for 30 years. He keeps an active research program in the area of neurotoxicology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Toxicology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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