Handbook of Histopathological Practices in Aquatic Environments: Guide to Histology for Environmental Toxicology

The Handbook of Histopathological Practices in Aquatic Biology offers readers in aquatic biology, and other water based environmental sciences, a comprehensive resource on histopathology, which is a key tool in the growing field of ecotoxicology. This work brings together all the necessary knowledge for the aquatic environmental scientist, from sample preparation to essential trait identification, scoring and data treatment. Furthermore, with examples from several groups of organisms (from worms to fish), it can be applied across a wide array of aquatic ecosystems, providing a step by step approach to solving the everyday questions of newcomers and experienced researchers in aquatic biology and related fields. Offers examples from a broad range of aquatic organisms, replacing sparse, dispersed and often aged literatureCovers a variety of organisms including often hard to find non-commercial and non-model speciesProvides an indepth understanding of how and why techniques are used, as opposed to just a list of proceduresCombines into a single work everything from sample handling to scoring INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. General concepts 3. Sample preparation 4. Staining protocols 5. Microphotography 6. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative histopathology 7. Recipes 8. Troubleshooting

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812032-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 316
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés