Environmental Biomonitoring: Exposure Assessment and Specimen Banking, Vol. 654 Book

	Preface
1	Environmental Biomonitoring and Specimen Banking: Bioanalytical Perspectives	1
2	General Aspects of Heavy Metal Monitoring by Plants and Animals	19
3	Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy in the Analysis of the Trace Metal Distribution in the Annual Growth Rings of Trees	30
4	Human Hair and Lichen: Activities Involving the Use of Biomonitors in International Atomic Energy Agency Programs on Health-Related Environmental Studies	42
5	The Silver Content of the Ascidian Pyura stolonifera as an Indicator of Sewage Pollution of the Metropolitan Beaches of Sydney, Australia	49
6	The Moose (Alces alces L.), A Fast and Sensitive Monitor of Environmental Changes	57
7	Use of Manganese Concentration in Bivalves as an Indicator of Water Pollution in Japanese Brackish Lakes	65
8	Mutagenesis and Acute Toxicity Studies on Saliva-Leached Components of Chewing Tobacco and Simulated Urine Using Bioluminescent Bacteria	77
9	Distribution of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners in Bear Lake Sediment	83
10	Challenges to Health from the Major Environmental Chemical Contaminants in the Saint Lawrence River	96
11	Body Burden Concentrations in Humans in Response to Low Environmental Exposure to Trace Elements	105
12	Placenta: Elemental Composition, and Potential as a Biomarker for Monitoring Pollutants to Assess Environmental Exposure	115
13	Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, and Cesium-137 Concentrations in Blood, Urine, or Placenta from Mothers and Newborns Living in Arctic Areas of Russia and Norway	135
14	Total Mercury and Methylmercury Levels in Scalp Hair and Blood of Pregnant Women Residents of Fishing Villages in the Eighth Region of Chile	151
15	Personal Exposure to Indoor Nitrogen Dioxide	178
16	Biomarkers of Inherited and Acquired Susceptibility to Toxic Substances	184
17	Biological Monitoring and Genetic Polymorphism	190
18	Biomarkers Used for Assessment of Cancer Risk in Populations Living in Areas of High Potential Carcinogenic Hazard (Near Communal and Chemical Waste Dumping Sites)	195
19	Molecular Epidemiology in Cancer Risk Assessment	206
20	Environmental Specimen Banking and Analytical Chemistry: An Overview	220
21	Environmental Specimen Banking: Contributions to Quality Management of Environmental Measurements	246
22	Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Tissue Banking	254
23	Establishing Baseline Levels of Elements in Marine Mammals Through Analysis of Banked Liver Tissues	261
24	A Pilot Biological Environmental Specimen Bank in China	271
	Author Index	279
	Affiliation Index	279
	Subject Index	280