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Title Health implications of perchlorate ingestion / Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations
Contents Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The thyroid and disruption of thyroid function in humans -- 3. Epidemiologic studies of occupational and environmental exposures to perchlorate -- 4. Animal studies -- 5. Risk characterization of perchlorate -- 6. Research recommendations -- Appendix A. Biographic information on the Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion -- Appendix B. Glossary -- Appendix C. Participants at public sessions -- Appendix D. Sensitivity of perchlorate-induced iodide uptake inhibition to serum iodide concentrations -- Appendix E. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling
Summary 1. Introduction -- 2. The thyroid and disruption of thyroid function in humans -- 3. Epidemiologic studies of occupational and environmental exposures to perchlorate -- 4. Animal studies -- 5. Risk characterization of perchlorate -- 6. Research recommendations -- Appendix A. Biographic information on the Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion -- Appendix B. Glossary -- Appendix C. Participants at public sessions -- Appendix D. Sensitivity of perchlorate-induced iodide uptake inhibition to serum iodide concentrations -- Appendix E. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Perchlorates -- Physiological effect
Drinking water -- Contamination.
Rats.
Risk assessment.
Water-supply.
Human beings.
Animals
Humans
Rats
Perchlorates -- adverse effects
Thyroid Gland -- physiology
Environmental Exposure
Risk Assessment
Water Supply
risk assessment.
Homo sapiens (species)
Water-supply
Risk assessment
Rats
Drinking water -- Contamination
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion.
ISBN 9780309548113
030954811X