Biosensors and Environmental Health [Hardcover]

Discussing the role biosensors play in detecting and monitoring environmental substances, Biosensors and Environmental Health provides key facts that can be applied to other areas of health and disease and a mini-dictionary of key terms and summary points. It covers 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. The 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-biosensolS6