Environmental Toxicology Diary

In several previous posts, I have described a lot of things related to the epidemiological study. As matter as fact, I have explained various kind why in several factors, epidemiology can only build an association between a suspected etiological factor with an observed response. There are several elements make epidemiological study can not establish […]

While selection bias happen because of the way we select the object study to build relationship or association between a suspected causative agent and disease or illness, observation bias is focused to the bias of the means of getting information about the study. This kind of bias is generally involved when you are doing retrospective […]

The most important thing for environmental toxicology study is to establish the association between a suspected causative agent and associated disease or illnesses. Several methods have been described in epidemiology and toxicology study. You have learned about fundamental difference between epiedemiology study and toxicology study. Now we will learn about one factor that should be […]

This post will briefly describe about definition of carcinogens, mechanisms of actions, the sources of carcinogens, and how we can identify and classify carcinogens.
What is definition of carcinogens?
It is any cancer-causing substance, chemical or physical, such as benzene, cadmium, asbestos or certain types of radiation. The term cancer refers to a type of neoplasm, […]

The presence of toxicology is direct or indirect inseparable with the body defense towards the attack of toxic chemicals inside our body. In this case our metabolism is the primary control on how we guard ourself. The body defense more or less is much depended on how you equip yourself with adequate nutrition.
The following is […]