Biosensors and Environmental Health

 Content: Immunochips for Personal Toxicity Testing, Zhixian Gao, Nan Liu and Rajkumar Rajendram Detection of Pesticide Residues using Biosensors, Javier Ramon-Azcon, Tomoyuki Yasukawa and Fumio Mizutani Biosensors for Ecotoxicity of Xenobiotics: a Focus on Soil and Risk Assessment, Edoardo Puglisi, Mariarita Arenella, Giancarlo Renella and Marco Trevisan Biosensor-controlled Degradation of Organophosphate Insecticides in Water, Georges Istamboulie, Jean-Louis Marty, Silvana Andreescu and Thierry Noguer Biosensors for Endocrine Disruptors: the Case of Bisphenol A and Catechol, Marianna Portaccio, Daniela Di Tuoro, Umberto Bencivenga, Maria Lepore, Damiano and Gustavo Mita Biosensors for Detection of Heavy Metals, Pavlina Sobrova, Libuse Trnkova, Vojtech Adam, Jaromir Hubalek and Rene Kizek Whole Cell Biosensors: Applications to Environmental Health, S. Buchinger and G. Reifferscheid Bacterial Whole Cell Bioreporters in Environmental Health, Yizhi Song, Dayi Zhang, Karen Polizzi, Eko Ge Zhang, Guanghe Li and Wei E. Huang Environmental Toxicology Monitoring with Polyazetidine-based Enzymatic Electrochemical Biosensors, Franco Mazzei and Gabriele Favero  Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Sensitive Bacterial Biosensors in Environmental Health, Mona Wells Quorum Sensing in Microbial Biosensors, Swati Choudhary and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert Biosensors Based on Immobilization of Proteins in Supramolecular Assemblies for the Detection of Environmental Relevant Analytes, Rosa Pilolli, Maria Daniela Angione, Serafina Cotrone, Maria Magliulo, Gerardo Palazzo, Nicola Cioffi, Luisa Torsi and Antonia Mallardi Nanogravimetric and Voltammetric DNA-biosensors for Screening of Herbicides and Pesticides Maria Hepel, Magdalena Stobiecka and Anna Nowicka Nitrate Determination by Amperometric Biosensors: Applications to Environmental Health, Erol Akyilmaz and Victor R Preedy Antibody-based Biosensors for Small Environmental Pollutants: Focusing on PAHs Candace R. Spier, Michael A. Unger and Stephen L. Kaattari Exoelectrogens-based Electrochemical Biosensor for Environmental Monitoring, Liu Deng, Li Shang and Shaojun Dong Detecting Waterborne Parasites Using Piezoelectric Cantilever Biosensors, Sen Xu and Raj Mutharasan Bioluminescence-based Biosensor for Food Contamination, Jinping Luo, Weiwei Yue, Xiaohong Liu, Qing Tian and Xinxia Cai
 Abstract:             "Biosensors have a biological component within them and can be used to detect, monitor or quantify environmental substances. Chapters have an abstract, key facts, applications to other areas of health and disease and a "mini-dictionary" of key terms and summary points. Coverage includes personal toxicity testing, soil and risk assessment, pesticide, insecticides, parasites, nitrate, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, food contamination, whole cell bioreporters, bacterial biosensors, antibody-based biosensors, enzymatic, amperometric and electrochemical aspects, quorum sensing, DNA-biosensors, cantilever biosensors, bioluminescence and other methods and applications. Contributors are leading authorities and the book is essential reading for environmental scientists, toxicologists, medical doctors, health care professionals, pathologists, biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists, general practitioners as well as those interested in disease and sciences in general. "