Toxicology
Chemicals
and Human Health includes educational tutorials and activities
around the topics Toxicology, Environmental Tobacco Smoke and
Lung Development, and Kidneys and Metals. The site was developed
by The Biology Project at the University of Arizona.
Toxicology
for the Public is a citizen's primer on toxicology concepts,
including risk assessment, the dose-response relationship, bioaccumulation
and ecological effects. The text is written in clear, accessible
language and includes answers to questions such as "How Much is
a Part Per Million?" The site is produced and maintained by the
Institute for Environmental Toxicology at Michigan State University.
Toxicology
Tutorials are a set of three instructional units written at
the introductory college student level that cover basic principles
of toxicology. The tutorials include with a basic introduction
to terms such as "dose-response" and "risk assessment";
a unit on toxicokinetics, how a substance gets into the body and
what happens to it in the body; and one on cellular toxicology,
the toxic mechanisms that operate at the cell level. The tutorials
were produced by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information
Program of the National Library of Medicine, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. The site is intended to provide a basic
understanding of toxicology as an aide for users of toxicology
literature contained in the National Library of Medicine's Chemical
and Toxicological databases.