Research Catalog

Title

Applications of molecular biology in environmental chemistry / edited by Roger A. Minear ... [et al.].

Publication

Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Minear, R. A.

Description

242 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Molecular biology in environmental chemistry

Subject

• Genetic toxicology
• Molecular toxicology
• Environmental chemistry
• Biological monitoring
• Environmental health
• Genetics
• Toxicology
• Chromosome Aberrations > chemically induced
• Mutation
• Carcinogens > toxicity
• Mutagens > adverse effects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Monitoring Microbial Pathogens and Indicator Microorganisms in Water Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction and Gene Probe Methods / Ronald M. Atlas, Asim K. Bej, Joseph L. DiCesare, Lawrence A. Haff and Shawn McCarty -- Ch. 2. Allele-Specific Hybridization and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in Mutation Analysis: The Salmonella typhimurium his Paradigm / Thomas A. Cebula -- Ch. 3. Mutational Spectra of the Four Bay-Region Diol Epoxides of Benzo[c]phenanthrene and the Drinking Water Mutagen, MX, Determined with an Improved Set of E. coli lacZ[superscript -] Mutants / Chuang Lu, Haruhiko Yagi, Donald M. Jerina and Albert M. Cheh -- Ch. 4. Assessment of Gene Expression in the Environment: Quantitative mRNA Analysis in Contaminated Soils / James T. Fleming and Gary S. Sayler -- Ch. 5. Biological and Biochemical Evidence of Strand-Specific Repair of DNA Damage Induced in Human Cells by [actual symbol not reproducible] / Veronica M. Maher, Ruey-Hwa Chen and J. Justin McCormick --
• Ch. 6. Molecular Analysis of Frameshift Mutations Induced by Plant-Activated 2-Aminofluorene / Michael J. Plewa, Margaret J. Timme, David Cortez, Shannon R. Smith and Elizabeth D. Wagner -- Ch. 7. Identification of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria by Hydrogenase Gene Probes and Reverse Sample Genome Probing / G. Voordouw, A. J. Telang, T. R. Jack, J. Foght, P. M. Fedorak and D. W. S. Westlake -- Ch. 8. The Uses and Abuses of Immunological Testing / Dennis K. Flaherty -- Ch. 9. Human Cytochromes P-450 and Their Roles in Environmentally-Based Disease / Frank J. Gonzalez -- Ch. 10. Important Considerations in the Ultratrace Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds in Blood / David L. Ashley, Michael A. Bonin, Frederick L. Cardinali, Joan M. McCraw, Joe V. Wooten and Larry L. Needham -- Ch. 11. Applications of New HPLC/MS Techniques in Human Biomonitoring / William M. Draper, F. Reber Brown, Robert A. Bethem, Michael J. Miille and Charles E. Becker --
• Ch. 12. Measurement of Reductive Dechlorination of Pentachlorophenol by Actinomyces viscosus Strain dechlorini by GC/MS Techniques / Frank O. Bryant and Horace G. Cutler -- Ch. 13. A Versatile Bioluminescent Reporter System for Organic Pollutant Bioavailability and Biodegradation / A. Heitzer, O. F. Webb, P. M. DiGrazia and Gary S. Sayler -- Ch. 14. Analytical Method for Biomonitoring of Aniline in Urine and Comparison with the Classical Colorimetric Method / Robert Orth, Gary Spies, Rashmii Nair and Jay M. Wendling -- Ch. 15. Biological Monitoring of Workers Exposed to Triazine Herbicides I: Determination of Simazine and Its Metabolites in Urine / J. G. Guillot, A. LeBlanc, O. Samuel and J. P. Weber -- Ch. 16. Biological Monitoring of Workers Exposed to Triazine Herbicides II: Presentation of a Method for the Determination of Hexazinone and Its Main Metabolites in Urine of Exposed Forestry Workers / A. LeBlanc, O. Samuel, J. G. Guillot and J. P. Weber.

ISBN

0873719514 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94038089

OCLC

• 31240750
• ocm31240750
• SCSB-4778009

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries