Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 6 - Biological, Biomedical and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
• 61 - Biology and Biomedical Sciences
• 26.10 - Pharmacology and Toxicology

26.1004 - Toxicology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of poisons and other biohazards; their interactions with organisms and their food and respiratory systems; and their prevention, management, and counteraction. These programs include courses in toxicological biochemistry, toxic agents and transporters, toxin fate, toxicokinetics and metabolism, toxin classification, molecular toxic mechanisms, extracellular matrices and cell function, bacterial pathogenesis and mutagenesis, pathophysiology and apoptosis, cell stress and injury, studies of specific toxins, and studies of specific organ systems and physiological functions in relation to toxicological problems.

• Example Program Names:

  • Biomedical toxicology
  • Toxicology

• Exclusion

  • Hazardous waste technology(15.0508)
  • Molecular toxicology(26.1005)
  • Environmental toxicology(26.1006)
  • Pharmacology and toxicology(26.1007)