title: Environmental specimen banking and poisons control--a new challenge.
abstract: Today clinical toxicology and poisons control are widely lacking objective criteria, e.g., analytical data, figures of kinetics and metabolism in acute and chronic poisoning. Co-operation between clinical toxicology and an environmental specimen bank for human tissue will help to overcome many difficulties and complement one another. The possible power of such a co-operation is demonstrated by the example of the institutions in Münster, Germany. The successful strategies used for setting-up an environmental specimen bank for human tissue may also be applied in clinical toxicology and experimental toxicology. The frame of a university medical clinic seems to be the ideal basis of an effective co-operation of an Environmental Specimen Bank for Human Tissue, a Poisons Control Centre and clinical toxicology. In general a co-operation of an environmental specimen bank for human tissue and a poisons control centre will be cost-saving and beneficial to both and an environmental specimen bank for human tissue will gain the status of a unique tool for risk assessment of xenobiotics.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Jekat
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eckard
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Kemper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000965:Antimony / Q000633:toxicity; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D011039:Poison Control Centers; D011041:Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control*; D051381:Rats; D013048:Specimen Handling; D014015:Tissue Banks; D014116:Toxicology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D000965:Antimony