Endocrine Disruption Modeling

by James Devillers (Editor)

Overview

Uses Computational Tools to Simulate Endocrine Disruption PhenomenaEndocrine Disruption Modeling provides a practical overview of the current approaches for modeling endocrine activity and the related potential adverse effects they may induce on environmental and human health. Based on the extensive research of an international panel of contributor

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420076363
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/27/2009
Series:	QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

James Devillers

Table of Contents

In Silico Methods for Modeling Endocrine Disruption. Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruptions, A Tentative Overview. Population Dynamics Modeling: A Tool For Environmental Risk Assessment of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Application of Pharmacokinetic Modeling to Understand the Mechanism of Action of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Comparative Modeling Review of Nuclear Hormone Receptor Superfamily. The FDA's Endocrine Disruptor Knowledge Base (EDKB): Lessons Learned in QSAR Modeling and Applications. A Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) Analysis for the Identification of Environmental Estrogens: The Categorical-SAR (cat-SAR) Approach. Kohonen and Counterpropagation Neural Networks Employed for Modeling Endocrine Disruptors. Quantitative Spectrometric Data-Activity Relationships (QSDAR) Models of Endocrine Disruptor Binding Activities. Mechanism-Based Modeling of Estrogen Receptor Binding Affinity: A COREPA Implementation. Molecular Field Analysis Methods for Modeling Endocrine Disruptors. Structure-Activity Modeling of a Diverse Set of Endrogen Receptor Ligands. SAR and QSAR Analyses of Substituted Dibenzoylhydrazines for Their Mode of Action as Ecdysone Agonists. e-Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Databases for Deriving SAR and QSAR Models.