chapter 1 Overview and future of molecular biomarkers of exposure and early disease in environmental health / chapter 2 Ethical and legal considerations in biological markers research / chapter 3 Scientific and policy issues affecting the future of environmental health sciences / chapter 4 Ecogenetics: genetic susceptibility to environmental adversity / chapter 5 Toxicogenomics and pharmacogenomics: basic principles, potential applications, and issues / chapter 6 Individual susceptibility to exposures: a role for genetic variation in DNA repair genes / chapter 7 Studies of DNA repair and human cancer: an update / chapter 8 DNA adducts as biomarkers of DNA damage in lung cancer / chapter 9 Tamoxifen–DNA adducts: biomarkers for drug-induced endometrial cancer / chapter 10 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon DNA adducts and human cancer / chapter 11 Quantitative PCR: a sensitive biomarker of gene-specific DNA damage and repair / chapter 12 Fidelity of DNA synthesis as a molecular biomarker / chapter 13 Mutational specificity of environmental carcinogens / chapter 14 Learning-induced modulation of neural cell adhesion molecule polysialylation state as a biomarker of prior inorganic lead exposure during the early postnatal period / chapter 15 Molecular biomarkers for mercury / chapter 16 Validity of mercury exposure biomarkers / chapter 17 Urinary arsenic species in relation to drinking water, toenail arsenic concentrations and genetic polymorphisms in GSTM1 in New Hampshire / chapter 18 Molecular responses of mammalian cells to nickel and chromate exposure / chapter 19 Chromium: exposure, toxicity, and biomonitoring approaches / chapter 20 Using plankton food web variables as indicators for the accumulation of toxic metals in fish / chapter 21 Validation of exposure and risk biomarkers: aflatoxin as a case study / chapter 22 Biomarkers of early effect in the study of cancer risk / chapter 23 Proteomics in toxicology: an experience with gentamicin / chapter 24 Xenopus laevis genomic biomarkers for environmental toxicology studies / chapter 25 Molecular biomarkers targeting signal transduction systems: the AH receptor pathway / chapter 26 Measuring oxidative damage caused by environmental stressors: potential for reversal and abatement / chapter 27 Biomarkers of male reproductive health / chapter 28 Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors: molecular biomarkers of neurotoxicity / chapter 29 Biomarkers of organ injury from chemical exposure: concurrent inflammation as a determinant of susceptibility / chapter 30 Modulation of GAP Junctional Communication by “Epigenetic” Toxicants: A Shared Mechanism in Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis, Atherogenesis, Immunomodulation, Reproductive and Neurotoxicities / chapter 31 Exposure to POPs and other congeners / chapter 32 Polybrominated diphenyl ethers: route, dose, and kinetics of exposure to humans / chapter 33 Bioanalytical approaches for the detection of dioxin and related halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons / chapter 34 Application of biomarkers to population studies on food chain contaminants in Nunavik (Arctic Quebec, Canada) / chapter 35 University-community partnership for the study of environmental contamination at Akwesasne / chapter 36 Electronic biosensing -- chapter 37 Two-photon fluorescence microscopy: a review of recent advances in deep-tissue imaging.