Download or read book In Vitro Methods in Aquatic Ecotoxicology written by Carmel Mothersill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, here is a book that focuses on in vitro approaches to the study of the toxicology of polluting agents (including heavy metals, radionuclides, micro-organics, estrogenic compounds, and complex mixtures) in the aquatic environment. The importance of in vitro methods is that they allow standardised techniques to be developed and validated for substance and species specific experiments in a controlled way. Also, they allow mechanistic studies without the problems of individual variation between animals and environmental stress.