ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 24, Number 3
May/June 1996

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Rex Leonard Burch (1926-1996)

NEWS AND VIEWS

LETTER FROM CAAT

ARTICLES

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

In vitro toxicology methods in risk assessment.
I.F.H. Purchase

Dynamic qualities of validation and the evolution of new in vitro toxicology tests.
E. Walum, A. Forsby, C. Clemedson & B. Ekwall

Validation of in vitro tests in neurotoxicology.
I.C. Campbell, L. Fletcher, P.A.A. Grant & E. Abdulla

An in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier: The response of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells to triethyl tin.
B. Veronesi, K. Carlsón & M. Ehrich

In vitro studies of acrylamide neurotoxicity in rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells.
W.W. Lin, J.R. Johnson, M.A. Friedman & M.B. Abou-Donia

Nicotinic receptors of different species exhibit differential sensitivities to nitromethylene and organophosphate insecticides.
M. Oortgiesen, R.G.D.M. van Kleef, R. Zwart, I. van den Beukel & H.P.M. Vijverberg

Exposure of cultured microglial cells to interferon-gamma.
I.K. Grundt & H. Nyland

Cholingergic and glutaminergic excitation of neuronal cells.
K.M. Savolainen, P. Tervo, J. Loikkanen & J. Naarala

The use of isolated hepatocytes from rats with enzyme-altered foci: studies of p53 expression.
U. Stenius, U. Martens & J. Högberg

The influence of glutathione on the cytotoxicity of metals in rat hepatoma-derived Fa32 cells.
P.J. Dierickx

Detection of oxidised purines and UV-induced photoproducts in DNA of single cells, by inclusion of lesion-specific enzymes in the comet assay.
M. Dusinská & A. Collins

In vitro cytotoxicity testing of potentially active anti-HIV drugs with cultured cells.
D. Hopkinson, P. Scheiner & F.A. Barile

Environmental genotoxicity in an Estonian oil shale industrial area.
R. Pruul, L. Nyland, K. Peltonen, M. Sorsa & T. Veidebaum

Fluorescent probes as tools in in vitro toxicology.
H. Lilius & B. Isomaa

Main features of basal cytotoxicity: sites of toxic action and interaction in the pollen tube cell.
U. Kristen

In vitro toxicology and the test guidelines.
K. Louekari

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

The validation of replacement alternative methods / In vitro toxicology / Animals, property and the law / Animals and why they matter

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