The World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences : Education, Research, Testing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences : Education, Research, Testing Baltimore, Md.
Other Authors: Goldberg, Alan M., Zutphen, L. F. M. van
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., [1995]
Series:Alternative methods in toxicology and the life sciences ; v. 11.
Subjects:
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?