Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adrenal toxicology : molecular targets, endocrine mechanisms, hormonal interactions, assessment models, and species differences in toxicity / Philip W. Harvey, David J. Everett, and Christopher J. Springall -- An overview of human adrenal dysfunction / Richard I.G. Holt and Neil A. Hanley -- The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis : endocrinology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and developmental effects / Julia C. Buckingham -- The adrenal medulla as a target organ in toxicologic studies of rats and mice / Susan A. Elmore, Abraham Nyska, and Arthur S. Tischler -- Adrenal gland background pathology of primates in toxicological studies / Joachim Kaspareit -- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal toxicity in dogs / Dorothy B. Colagiovanni and Dennis J. Meyer -- Adrenocortical toxicology in vitro : assessment of steroidogenic enzyme expression and steroid production in H295R cells / Thomas Sanderson -- Comparisons of adrenocortical cell lines as in vitro test systems / Jeniel Parmar and William Rainey -- Glucocorticoid pharmacotoxicological interactions and modulation of toxicity / Qin M. Chen and Haipeng Sun -- Adrenocortical toxicology in fishes / Alice Hontela and Mathilakath M. Vijayan -- Adrenocortical toxicology in birds : environmental contaminants and the avian response to stress / Raquel Baos and Julio Blas.