I thank John Wiley & Sons Ltd, particularly Jenny Cossham and Katrina Maceda, for their excellent help, cooperation, support, and assistance with the timely publication of this book. Wiley published my first book, Hepatotoxicity: From Genomics to in vitro and in vivo Models, in 2007. Since then Wiley has published fifteen more of my books (including the current one), all in new, different, emerging, and developing areas of modern toxicology and medicine such as nanotoxicology, systems toxicology, toxicogenomics, epigenomics, microRNAs, stem cells—and I am still counting. I am amazed at Wiley’s trust in me. I am grateful to John Wiley & Sons Ltd for the rest of my life!
Saura C. Sahu, PhD
Columbia, MD
List of Contributors
Eid Alshammari
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology,
and Immunology, Wayne State University
School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Mayukh Banerjee
Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology, University of Louisville School
of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
Robert Y.S. Cheng
Molecular Mechanisms Section, Cancer
and Inflammation Program, Center
for Cancer Research, National Cancer
Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
Brian N. Chorley
Center for Computational Toxicology
and Exposure, Office of Research and
Development, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, NC, USA
Carmen Elena Condrat
Carol Davila University of Medicine and
Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania;
Alessandrescu-Rusescu National Institute
for Mother and Child Health, Fetal
Medicine Excellence Research Center,
Bucharest, Romania
Matei-Alexandru Cozma
Department of Gastroenterology, Colentina
Clinical Hospital, 20125 Bucharest,
Romania
Dragos Cretoiu
Alessandrescu-Rusescu National Institute
for Mother and Child Health, Fetal
Medicine Excellence Research Center,
020395 Bucharest, Romania;
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
and Histology, Carol Davila University
of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest,
Romania
Sanda Maria Cretoiu
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
and Histology, Carol Davila University
of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest,
Romania
Asim Bikas Das
Department of Biotechnology, National
Institute of Technology Warangal,
Warangal, Telangana, India
Elena-Codruța Dobrică
Department of Dermatology, “Elias”
University Emergency Hospital, 011461
Bucharest, Romania
Ana P. Ferragut Cardoso
Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology, University of Louisville School
of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
Jennifer L. Freeman
School of Health Sciences, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Yusuke Furukawa
Division of Cellular and Molecular
Toxicology, Center for Biological Safety
and Research, National Institute of Health
Sciences (NIHS), Kawasaki, Japan
Mihnea-Alexandru Găman
Faculty of Medicine, “Carol Davila”
University of Medicine and Pharmacy,
Bucharest, Romania; Department of
Hematology, Center of Hematology and
Bone Marrow Transplantation, Fundeni
Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania
David S. Hernández-Toledano
Department of Toxicology, Center for
Research and Advanced Studies of the
National Polytechnic Institute, Ciudad de
México, México.
Yoko Hirabayashi
Center for Biological Safety and Research,
National Institute of Health Sciences
(NIHS), Kawasaki, Japan
Taisen Iguchi
Graduate School of Nanobioscience,
Yokohama City University, Yokohama,
Japan
Pius Joseph
Molecular Carcinogenesis Laboratory,
Toxicology and Molecular Biology
Branch, Health Effects Laboratory
Division, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Morgantown, WV, USA
Benjamin L. King
Department of Molecular and Biomedical
Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME;
Graduate School of Biomedical Science and
Engineering, University of Maine,
Orono, ME, USA
Satoshi Kitajima
Division of Cellular and Molecular
Toxicology, Center for Biological Safety
and Research, National Institute of Health
Sciences (NIHS), Kawasaki, Japan
Makiko Kuwagata
Division of Cellular and Molecular
Toxicology, Center for Biological Safety
and Research, National Institute of Health
Sciences (NIHS), Kawasaki, Japan
Deepak Mav
Sciome, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA