ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 24, Number 2
March/April 1996

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

No prediction model, no validation study

NEWS AND VIEWS

LETTER FROM CAAT

ARTICLES

The Three Rs in research and education: a long road ahead in the United States.
F. Barbara Orlans

The Fifth Meeting of the Netherlands In Vitro Toxicology Group and the Netherlands Alternatives to Animal Experiments Platform.

The use of porcine proximal tubular cells for studying nephrotoxicity in vitro: the role of oxidative stress in cisplatin-induced cell death.
K. Kruidering, B. van de Water, E. de Heer, G.J. Mulder & J.F. Nagelkerke

Relevance of animal studies in regulatory toxicology: current approaches in rats.
J.J.M. van de Sandt & V.J. Feron

In vitro-based and in vivo-based simulations of benzene uptake and metabolism in rats.
J. de Jongh & B.J. Blaauboer

Direct functional effects of parathion and paraxon on neuronal nicotinic and muscarinic M3 acetylcholine receptors.
I. van den Beukel, R.G.D.M. van Kleef & M. Ooortgiesen

An interlaboratory evaluation of five pairs of teratogens and non-teratogens in post-implantation rat embryo culture.
A.H. Piersma, R. Bechter, N. Krafft, B.P. Schmid, J. Stadler, A. Verhoef, C. Verseil & J. Zijlstra

ECVAM Workshop Report

The use in vitro systems for evaluating haematotoxicity
L. Gribaldo, J. Bueren, A. Deldar, P. Hokland, C. Meredith, D. Moneta, P. Mosesso, R. Parchment, D. Parent-Massin, A. Pessina, J. San Roman & G. Schoeters

CONFERENCE REPORT

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

Animal welfare: a cool eye towards eden / Studies in research ethics: Vols. 5 & 6 / The animal research controversey. Protest, process & public policy: an analysis of strategic issues / The status on alternative methods in toxicology

SELECTED TITLES