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Lecture 5 - Dose-Response Relationships

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Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the quantitative relationship between toxicant exposure and induced effect.
  2. Describe frequently encountered toxic effects.
  3. Understand threshold effects with dosage increase.
  4. Understand effective dose, margin of safety and the relationship of effective vs. toxic dose.
  5. Examine the use of actual data for no observed effect and lowest observed effect in risk assessments.
  6. Summarize effective, lethal and toxic doses.
  7. Understand a linearized, multi-stage model for non-threshold responses.

LECTURE MATERIALS

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LECTURE ACTIVITIES

Homework

Discussion

Advance Reading

  1. Richards 2nd ed., pp 119-128; pp 365-392
  2. NLM Toxicology Tutor Dose and Response

Resources

Keywords

  • Associative relationships
  • Causal relationships
  • Ceiling effect
  • Cumulative dose-response graph
  • Dose-response relationship
  • ED50
  • Effective dose (ED)
  • Efficacy
  • Epidemiological studies
  • Frequency dose-response graph
  • LD50
  • Lethal dose (LD)
  • Margin of safety
  • Mixed toxicity
  • No Observable Effect Level (NOEL)
  • Normal distribution
  • Potency
  • Potent
  • Reversed toxicity
  • Subthreshold doses
  • TD50
  • Threshold dose
  • Threshold Limit Value (TLV)
  • Toxic dose (TD)

Suggested Reading

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