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Chemicals as poisons
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Chemicals in the environment
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The chemicals
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Toxicology
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The toxic effects of chemicals: dose-response relationships
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Animal experimentation
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Methods Box 14.1 Ethics of animal experimentation
Action of toxic chemicals
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Pollutants affect muscular and nerve function
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Review Box 14.2 Mechanisms of toxicity
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Reproduction physiology is very sensitive to pollutants
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Case Box 14.3 The seal populations of the Baltic Sea
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Teratogens
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Immune system and organ formation
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The bird's sensitive point is the egg
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Detoxification a dangerous way to save oneself
Environmental medicine
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Environment and human health
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The fate and effects of toxic compounds in the human body
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Air pollution and human health
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Environmental risk assessment and environmental epidemiology
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Case Box 14.4 Health of the Polish population
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Human health and environmental hazards
Occupational and public health
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Food habits, life style and health
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DNA and mutagenic substances
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Measuring mutagenicity
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Pollution and Threshold Limit Values
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Biomarkers
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