By: Victor R. Preedy (Editor), Vinood B. Patel (Editor)

Hardcover

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"Biosensors have a biological component within them and can be used to detect, monitor or quantify environmental substances. Chapters have an abstract, key facts, applications to other areas of health and disease and a "mini-dictionary" of key terms and summary points. Coverage includes personal toxicity testing, soil and risk assessment, pesticide, insecticides, parasites, nitrate, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, food contamination, whole cell bioreporters, bacterial biosensors, antibody-based biosensors, enzymatic, amperometric and electrochemical aspects, quorum sensing, DNA-biosensors, cantilever biosensors, bioluminescence and other methods and applications. Contributors are leading authorities and the book is essential reading for environmental scientists, toxicologists, medical doctors, health care professionals, pathologists, biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists, general practitioners as well as those interested in disease and sciences in general. "--

Immunochips for Personal Toxicity Testing
Detection of Pesticide Residues using Biosensors
Biosensors for Ecotoxicity of Xenobiotics: a Focus on Soil and Risk Assessment
Biosensor-controlled Degradation of Organophosphate Insecticides in Water
Biosensors for Endocrine Disruptors: the Case of Bisphenol A and Catechol
Biosensors for Detection of Heavy Metals
Whole Cell Biosensors: Applications to Environmental Health
Bacterial Whole Cell Bioreporters in Environmental Health
Environmental Toxicology Monitoring with Polyazetidine-based Enzymatic Electrochemical Biosensors
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Sensitive Bacterial Biosensors in Environmental Health
Quorum Sensing in Microbial Biosensors
Biosensors Based on Immobilization of Proteins in Supramolecular Assemblies for the Detection of Environmental Relevant Analytes
Nanogravimetric and Voltammetric DNA-biosensors for Screening of Herbicides and Pesticides
Nitrate Determination by Amperometric Biosensors: Applications to Environmental Health
Antibody-based Biosensors for Small Environmental Pollutants: Focusing on PAHs
Exoelectrogens-based Electrochemical Biosensor for Environmental Monitoring
Detecting Waterborne Parasites Using Piezoelectric Cantilever Biosensors
Bioluminescence-based Biosensor for Food Contamination
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ISBN: 9781578087358
ISBN-10: 157808735X
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 350
Published: 8th August 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.6
Weight (kg): 0.68