The World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences : Education, Research, Testing /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,
[1995]
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| Series: | Alternative methods in toxicology and the life sciences ;
v. 11. |
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Table of Contents:
- Replacement alternatives and the concept of alternatives
- The history of animal use in the life sciences
- The role of animals and alternatives in education
- Science, ethics, and animals
- The need to refine animal care and use
- Reduction of animal use and experimental design
- Alternatives in safety testing : progress or uselessness?
- Animals and society
- The development of legislation on the use of animals and alternatives
- W.M.S. Russell speech at the awards luncheon
- Picard's Dilemma (text of the play presented at the World Congress banquet)
- Heavy metals
- Neurobiology
- Reproductive toxicology
- Hepatic function and metabolism
- Biologicals
- Toxicity testing
- Dermal toxicology
- Ocular
- Renal toxicology
- Alternatives and risk assessment : a risk worth taking
- The chicken enucleated eye test (CEET) : a screen for the assessment of eye irritation/corrosion potential of compounds
- Alternatives in safety testing : approaches in the Slovak Republic
- Combining in vitro alternatives and physiologically-based computer modeling will improve quantitative health risk assessments
- Structure-activity relationships as alternatives in the study of carcinogenesis
- Attempts to validate a possible predictive animal model for human erythrocyte G-6-PD deficiency
- Rat as a model to study postprandial effects in man
- Validation programs in Europe
- Observations on US validation studies
- Validation of new toxicology test systems-the paradigm of genetic toxicity tests
- Current status of validation studies in Japan
- The landscape of alternatives-AWIC
- The UC Center for animal alternatives
- The status of in vitro toxicity testing databases in Europe
- Public sources of in vitro toxicity testing data in North America
- The Galileo Data Bank of alternative methodologies to the use of animals in toxicity testing
- Reduction of the use of animals for quality control testing in the European Pharmacopoeia
- USP alternatives to animal testing : the in vitro option - a progress report
- Education - the three R's concept
- Computers in education
- On the ethical and scientific need for assessing the potential benefit of research likely to cause suffering to protected animals
- Mechanisms of pain
- Euthanasia
- Environmental manipulations to promote psychological well-being in primates
- Animal boredom : consequences for housing and feeding conditions
- Refinement of perioperative care
- Refining anaesthetic techniques in a laboratory animal facility : practical problems
- Pain and distress in laboratory animals : what we know and what we assume
- Preclinical models for analgesic drug study
- Ethical scoring systems
- The Australian and New Zealand Council fo the care of animals in research and teaching
- The role of animal care committees in fostering use of alternatives : a case study
- The use of rabbits, dogs, cats, and primates in USDA-registered and federal biomedical laboratories in the United States 1975-1992
- The psychology of animal rights activism
- The caring sleuth : a qualitative analysis of animal rights activists
- Public attitudes toward animal research : a comparative study of 15 nations
- On recognizing and overcoming barriers to the acceptance of alternative methods
- Progress in the acceptance of in vitro tests by regulatory authorities
- The erosion of acceptability of animal toxicity tests in the courtroom
- Directory of funding sources for scientific pursuit of alternatives
- Endpoints and cell systems for in vitro toxicity assessment : a discussion of specific target cell toxicity versus basal cytotoxicity
- In vitro and in vivo : alternative or complementary techniques?