Marine Science and Coastal Management

1 total work

In Vitro Methods in Aquatic Ecotoxicology

by Carmel Mothersill and Brian Austin

Published 14 August 2003

For the first time, here is a book that focuses 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.