Toxic Chemical and Biological Agents: Detection, Diagnosis and Health Concerns

Contents

1. Professor Giovanni Sindona

2. Evaluation of Quality and Safety of Foods by Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Giovanni Sindona and Leonardo Di Donna........................................................................

3. Detection of Biological Warfare Agents Using Biosensors by Joseph H. Banoub, Abanoub Mikhael ....................................................................................

4. Mass Spectrometry Methods for Food Safety/Detection of Toxins in Food by Gianluca Giorgi..................................................................................

5. Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics by Emilio S. Rivera, Marissa A. Jones, Emma R. Guiberson, Jeremy L. Norris ..............................................

6. Direct Mass Spectrometry as a Practical Analytical Strategy for High Speed, High Throughput Testing by Mark W. Duncan .........................................................

7. Mass Spectrometry in Ecotoxicology by Ksenia J. Groh and Marc J-F Suter.............

8. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry: technology and

applications by Josiah C. McMillen, William J. Perry, Kavya Sharman, Katerina V. Djambazova, & Richard M. Caprioli .......................................................

9. Risks and Consequences of Hazard Agents to Human Health by Diana Coman Schmid...

10. Bacterial threats to human health and food supply by Vanessa Sperandio ................

11. An overview of male reproductive toxicants: facts and opinions by Charles Pineau.....................................................................................

12. Defense Against Biological Terrorism: Vaccines and their Characterization by Mauro Bologna, Abanoub Mikhael, Ilaria Bologna, Joseph Banoub..............................

13. Environmental Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health in the Annaba region (Algeria) by Aissa Benselhoub^, Ali Ismet Kanli...............................................................

14. New insight into Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: Strategy based on Urinary Exosomes by E. Barigazzi, L. Santorelli, W. Morello, F. Raimondo, B. Crapella, L. Ghio, C. Tamburello, G. Montini^, M. Pitto...................................................................

15. Synthesis of long-chain esters under continuous flow conditions by Daniela Caputo, Michele Casiello, Amelita Grazia Laurenza, Francesco Fracassi, Caterina Fusco, Angelo Nacci, ^, Lucia D'Accolti............................................................................

16. Data Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry for Proteomic Advances into Isolated Methylmalonic Acidemia by Michele Costanzo, Marianna Caterino, Armando Cevenini, Laxmikanth Kollipara, Olga Shevchuk, Chi D.L. Nguyen, Albert Sickmann Margherita Ruoppolo.............................................................................................

17. Deposition strategies of nano-TiO₂ photocatalyst for wastewater applications by Massimo Dell'Edera, Francesca Petronella, Teresa Sibillano, Cinzia Giannini, Angela Agostiano, Maria Lucia Curri, Roberto Comparelli.........................................................