Alternatives to animal testing : new ways in the biomedical sciences, trends, and progress /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reinhardt, Christoph A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Weinheim ; New York : VCH, [1994]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Looking back 33 years to Russell and Burch: the development of the concept of the threes Rs (alternatives) / A.N. Rowan
  • OECD and international regulatory acceptance of the three Rs / H.M. Van Looy, H.B.W.M. Koeter
  • European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) / E. Marafante, M. Balls
  • Timetable for replacing, reducing and refining animal use with the help of in vitro tests: the limulus amebocyte lysate test (LAL) as an example / O. Flint
  • Fund for the replacement of animals in medical experiments (FRAME): 23 years of campaigning for the three Rs / M. Balls, J.H. Fentem
  • Animal use and alternatives: developments in the Netherlands / L.F.M. van Zutphen
  • RIVM Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and the concept of the three Rs in the quality control of vaccines / C.F.M. Hendriksen
  • ZEBET: three years of the National German Center for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments at the Federal Health Office (BGA) in Berlin / H. Spielmann, G. Grune-Wolff, M. Liebsch.
  • (cont) Reviewed literature databank for alternatives to animal experiments-"Gelve Liste" / B. Rusche, U.G. Sauer
  • SIAT research, teaching and consulting program in the area of vitro toxicology. Experimental research, screening and validation / C.A. Reinhardt
  • Computer-aided drug design and the three Rs / A. Vedani
  • Computer-aided programs in biomedical education / R.T. Fosse
  • Alternatives to experiments with animals in medical education: a TEMPUS joint European project / M. Cervinka ... [et al.]
  • Replacement of laboratory animals in the management of blood-sucking arthropods / A.E. Issmer ... [et al.]
  • Maintenance of filarial cycles in the laboratory: approaches to replacing the vertebrate host / J. Rapp ... [et al.]
  • Improved drug metabolizing capacity of hepatocytes co-cultured with epithelial cells and maintained in a perifusion system / R. Gebhardt
  • Characterization and use of long-term liver cultures to evaluate the toxicity of cyclophosphamide or benzene to bone marrow cultures / B.A. Naughton ... [et al.].
  • (cont) European interlaboratory evaluation of an in vitro ocular irritation model (Skin2TM model ZK1100) using 18 chemicals and formulated products / P.W. Joller ... [et al.]
  • Cellular assays for testing peritoneal dialysis bags / M. Dawson, Z. Jabar
  • Position of the authorities / L. Pioda.