ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 23, Number 4
July/August 1995

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

LETTER FROM CAAT

ARTICLES

The Twelfth Congress on In Vitro Toxicology of the Scandanavian Society for Cell Toxicology

Potential of human lung cells for predicting acute cytotoxicity.
F.A. Barile, D. Alexander & A. Sookhoo

Biological evaluation of medical devices: a review of EU regulations, with emphasis on in vitro screening for biocompatibility.
G. Schmalz

Scientific validation: a crucial and unavoidable prerequisite to the acceptability of new tests and testing strategies.
M. Balls

Gap junctional intercellular communication and modulators of kinases and phosphatases.
T. Husøy, S-O. Mikalsen & T. Sanner

Side-specific toxic effects on the membranes of cultured renal epithelial cells (A6).
H.F. Bjerregaard

In vitro methods as a tool in neurotoxicity studies.
H. Tähti, L. Vaalavirta & T. Toimela

The reducing agent dithiothreitol (DDT) increases expression of c-myc and c-fos proto-oncogenes in human cells.
J. Skouv, I. Kryspin-Sørensen, H. Frandsen, E. Selzer Rasmussen & J. Forchhammer

Toxicity, clastogenicity and genotoxicity of theophylline and pentoxifylline in mammalian cells cultured in vitro.
D. Slamenová, I. Chalupa, A. Gábelová, E. Bozsakyová, E. Horváthová & M. Blasko

Defence mechanisms protecting glial cell cultures against the toxicity of lead.
I.K. Grundt, M. Rise & H. Nyland

The impact of computer-based alternatives on the use of animals in undergraduate teachings: a pilot study.
D. Dewhurst & L. Jenkinson

Direct determination of glutathione reductase in cells cultured in microtitre plates as a biomarker for oxidative stress.
G. Garcia-Alfonso, P. Sanz, G. Repetto, M. Repetto & J. López-Barea

The effects of carbocaine hydrochloride on isolated porcine corneas in vitro: a comparison of opacity, hydration and thickness.
H. Igarashi, C. Sato, K. Ogawa, M. Kojima & Y. Chiba

CONFERENCE REPORT

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

European medicines research / Research animal anesthesia and analgesia in surgery / Animal cells as bioreactors / Methods in molecular biology

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