Overview
Toxicology is the scientific study of the adverse effects of chemical, physical, and biological agents on living organisms, together with the mechanisms, dose-response relationships, and risk assessment that characterise those effects. A foundational principle is that the dose modulates physiology, so that the same substance may be benign, therapeutic, or harmful depending on exposure level, duration, and route. In pharmaceutical and environmental science, toxicology underpins the evaluation of drugs and other agents before and after they reach use, integrating preclinical hazard testing with pharmacovigilance data such as hospital episodes from drug overdose. Major branches reflected in this literature include nutritional toxicology, where biogenic amines and dietary exposures are examined; environmental and aquatic toxicology, including the effects of heavy metals such as hexavalent chromium on aquatic organisms; metabolomic approaches to assessing environmental exposure; and food-safety analysis using techniques such as liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Emerging challenges, including the toxicological dimensions of pandemic agents, broaden the field's scope. Sub-areas span mechanistic, regulatory, clinical, forensic, and computational systems toxicology, alongside immunological strategies for developing safer therapeutic agents. By linking exposure to biological response across scales, toxicology provides the evidence base for protecting human and ecological health and for the safe development of therapeutics.
Research published in this journal
10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Emerging and Future Challenges in Toxicology Practice
The Role of Biogenic Amines in Nutrition Toxicology: Review
Hospital Episodes Due to Antidepressant Overdose: An Under-Utilised Source of Pharmacovigilance Data
The Use of Metabolomic Tool in Assessing Environmental Exposure
The Dose Modulates the Body’s Physiology: Literature Review
The Application of Immunoglobulins Immune Response in the Discovery and Development of Safe Therapeutic Agents: A Review Article
Effect of Hexavalent Chromium on the WBCs of the Fresh Water Fish, Labeo rohita
Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) Applications in Food Safety–Review
Drug Design Progress of In silico, In vitro and In vivo Researches
How this research is being cited
The 10 articles above have been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Microchemical Journal
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2026 · Talanta
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Serkan Erdemir et al. · 2025 · Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry
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2025 · ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2025 · Talanta
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2025 · Talanta
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Romnick B Unabia et al. · 2024 · ACS Omega
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2024 · ACS Omega
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