Lu's Basic Toxicology ― Fundamentals, Target Organs, and Risk Assessment

Continuing a long tradition, Lu’s Basic Toxicology, Seventh Edition, combines relatively comprehensive coverage of toxic substances in food, air, and water with brevity, thereby continuing to serve as an updated introductory text for toxicology students and for those involved in allied sciences that require a background in toxicology. The new edition, which now becomes an edited work with contributions from experts around the globe, features four new chapters and a number of existing chapters that have been updated and expanded, notably those on mechanisms of toxic effects, conventional toxicity studies, the cardiovascular system, and risk assessment and regulatory toxicology.

The book consists of four parts (Part I–Part IV) that provide guidance on principles of toxicology and testing procedures for toxicities as well as a concise, yet detailed, mechanism of both target organ and nontarget organ toxicities. The book is rounded off with a final section (Part IV) on the toxic effects of chemicals and risk assessment, giving toxicologists, both students and practicing professionals, the necessary tools to enhance their practice. This edition includes new chapters on Clinical Toxicology, Systems Toxicology, Chemicals and Children, and Toxicology of Reproductive Systems, providing the essentials of these topics in the same style as the other chapters in the book. With separate subject and chemical indexes, this is a useful, quick shelf reference for everyone working in toxicology today.

Professor Byung-Mu Lee, B.S., M.S., M.S.P.H., Dr.P.H. is professor of toxicology at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He is associate editor of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, associate editor of food and chemical toxicology and an editorial board member of Environmental Health Perspectives.

Professor Sam Kacew, B.Sc.(McGill), M.Sc.(Ott.), Ph.D.(ibid.) is professor of toxicology and associate director of toxicology at the Institute of Population Health Risk Assessment, the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Hyung Sik Kim, Ph.D., Professor of Division of Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He received M.S.in Feb. 25, 1991 from the College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He obtained Ph.D. for the research of Chemical Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention at College of Pharmacy. After he finished Ph.D. degree, He joined Korea Food & Drug Administration, and served as a Senior Researcher thereafter. He has been involved in the project of Reproductive & Developmental Toxicology and Endocrine Toxicology. He has published more than 200 papers and He is the authors of several book chapters including Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Endocrine Disruptors, etc. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal Toxicology & Environmental Health Part A, an Associate Editor of The Journal of Toxicological Sciences, and an Editorial Board Member of Toxicological Research.