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Title: Pharmacokinetics in risk assessment: drinking water and health. Volume 8

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5559168

Contents include: risk assessment: historical perspectives; tissue dosimetry in risk assessment; modeling: an introduction; physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling; allometry: body-size constraints in animal design; prediction of in vivo parameters of drug metabolism and distribution from in-vitro studies; dose, species, and route extrapolation; uncertainty in pharmacokinetic models using SIMUSOLV; interspecies and dose-route extrapolations; carcinogen DNA adducts as a measure of biological dose for risk analysis of carcinogenic data; resources available for simulation in toxicology; route-to-route extrapolation of dichloromethane exposure using a physiological pharmacokinetic model; sensitivity analysis in pharmacokinetic modeling; mutation accumulation: chronic cytotoxicant exposure; model for ethylene chloride and its application in risk assessment; mathematical modeling of ozone absorption in the lower respiratory tract; development of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for multiday inhalation of carbon tetrachloride; the delivered/administered dose relationship and its impact on formaldehyde risk estimates; pharmacokinetic simulation in risk assessment; hazard assessment: ozone; role of pharmacokinetic modeling in risk assessment; development of multispecies, multiroute pharmacokinetic models for methylene chloride and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform); methotrexate: pharmacokinetics and assessment of toxicity; prospective predictions and validations in anticancer therapy; the application of pharmacokinetic data in carcinogenic risk assessment.

Research Organization:
National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA)
OSTI ID:
5559168
Report Number(s):
PB-89-203319/XAB; ISBN: 0-309-03775-1
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also Volume 4, PB--82-249244. Errata sheet inserted. Library of Congress catalog card no. 77-89284
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English