MOL TOX 242Advanced Molecular Toxicology
Molecular Toxicology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Examination of recent literature on mechanisms of toxicity. Didactic lectures and student presentation of papers selected by instructor on various aspects of toxic mechanisms, including free radical generation, oxidative stress and adaptive pathways, mechanisms of cell death, inflammation and fibrosis, autophagy and diseases, metal toxicity/ion homeostasis, carcinogenesis, DNA damage and repair, cancer and gene environmental interactions, toxicity testing and radiation carcinogenesis, toxicology of major pollutants including air pollution, persistent organic pollutants and dioxins, toxicology of major organ including liver, kidney, immune, reproductive and nervous system, and nanotoxicology. Discussion of various papers.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Environmental Health Sciences C240. Preparation: undergraduate biology and chemistry courses.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MOL TOX 242
- ENV HLT C240Fundamentals of Toxicology
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.