Neural cell biology

This text delineates how systems biology, pharmacogenomic, and behavioural approaches, as applied to neurodevelopmental toxicology, provide a structure to arrange information in a biological model.

The text reviews and discusses approaches that can be used as effective tools to dissect mechanisms underlying pharmacological and toxicological phenomena associated with the exposure to drugs or environmental toxicants during development.

The book intends to elaborate functional outcomes of component-to-component relationships using rodent and nonhuman primate in vitro and in vivo models that allow for the directional and quantitative description of the complete organism in response to environmental perturbations.