ALTEX: Current Issue: 4/09
 Editorial
The ALTEX Team
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Thomas Hartung, Bas Blaauboer and Marcel Leist:
Food for thought … on education in alternative methods in toxicology
MAIN ARTICLES(Abstract only) Stefanie Schindler, Sonja von Aulock, Mardas Daneshian and Thomas Hartung:
Development, validation and applications of the monocyte activation test for pyrogens based on human whole blood
(Abstract only) Peter C. Kamusella, Christian Wissgott, Christian Grosse-Siestrup, Sven Dittrich, Olaf Hegemann, Dimitri Koios, Juliane von Massenbach, Michael Meissler, Volker Unger, David Quarcoo and David A. Groneberg:
A model of isolated autologously hemoperfused porcine slaughterhouse lungs
(Abstract only) Ursula G. Sauer:
Political incentives towards replacing animal testing in nanotechnology? (Abstract only) Anett Ullrich, Donna B. Stolz, Ewa C. Ellis, Stephen C. Strom, George K. Michalopoulos, Jan G. Hengstlerand and Dieter Runge:
Long term cultures of primary human hepatocytes as an alternative to drug testing in animals SHORT COMMUNICATION(Abstract only) Chantra Eskes, Vanessa de Moura Sá-Rocha, Jadir Nunes, Octavio Presgrave, Dermeval de Carvalho, Philippe Masson, Ekaterina Rivera, Sandra Coecke, Joachim Kreysa and Thomas Hartung:
Proposal for a Brazilian centre on alternative test methods COMMENT Thomas Hartung and Costanza Rovida:
That which must not, can not be… a reply to EChA and EDF responses to the REACH analysis of animal use and costs | 
