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.