Advanced Environmental Toxicology

Catalog description

A continuation of Introduction to Environmental Toxicology (ENV S 120A). Using additional case studies such as the decline of Baltic seals, the birth defects caused by thalidomide, and the cancers caused by DES, course explores reproductive and developmental toxicology, teratogenicity, epigenetic effects, carcinogenicity (again), and estrogen effects while examining organic chemistry, chlorinated hydrocarbons, pesticides, solvents, and structure activity relationships.