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o24erat64

Coverage

Greensboro, North Carolina

Publisher

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

College Name

College of Science and Technology

Department Name

Department of Built Environment

Course Number/Section

EHS 315

Date/Term

2020

Course Description

Environmental health is associated with recognizing, assessing, understanding and controlling the impacts of people in their environment and the impacts of the environment on the public health. The science of environmental health spans a wide range of topics, requiring the use of multidisciplinary approaches to study the impact of environmental factors on human health. Toxicology, a major component of environmental health, can be broadly defined as the science that explores how drugs and chemicals adversely affect human health. Student enrolled in this course will learn the basic principles of toxicology as they apply to human health. Topics will include activation and detoxification of drugs and chemicals, cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in toxic responses elicited by chemicals, and basic concepts of carcinogenesis and mutagenesis. Effects associated with specific classes of chemical agents that are likely to induce injury and/or pose significant potential for human exposure will be presented. In addition, the concept of how human risk is estimated from xenobiotic exposure will be introduced.

Required Textbook 1

Klaassen, C. D. (2018). Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons (9th ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN: 9781259863745.

Required Textbook 1 Price

$134.00

OER Selection 1

Environmental Toxicology

Environmental and Occupational Toxicology

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