ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 26, Number 4
July/August 1998

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

The FRAME Reduction Initiative

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

3RD WORLD CONGRESS

LETTER FROM CAAT

LETTER FROM THE NCA

ARTICLES

The Fifteenth Congress on In Vitro Toxicology of the Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology

Responses of glutathione S-transferase and glutathione peroxidases to feeding rate of a wolf spider Pardosa prativaga.
S.A. Nielsen & S. Toft

Effects of inducers of drug metabolism on cytosolic glutathione S-transferase activity in rat hepatoma-derived Fa32 cells.
P.J. Dierickx

Monitoring method as a basis for need-based control of varroa mites (Varroa jacobsoni) infesting honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies.
C.J. Brødsgaard & H.F. Brødsgaard

The use of biomarkers as alternatives to current animal tests on food chemicals.
K. Bottrill

In vitro models for studying renal stone formation: a clear alternative.
F. Grases, R.M. Prieto & A. Costa-Bauzá

The use of simultaneous fluorescence and differential phase confocal microscopy to study Alamar BLue™ reduction in an epithelial cell line.
J.R. Garside, R.H. Clothier, M.G. Somekh & C. Wah See

A call for a European prohibition of monoclonal antibody production by the ascites procedure in laboratory animals.
C.F.M. Hendriksen

Influence of slice thickness and culture conditions on the metabolism of 7-ethoxycoumarin in precision-cut rat liver slices.
R.J. Price, A.B. Renwick, P.T. Barton, J.B. Houston & B.G. Lake

COMMENT

Comments on Appendix C of the National Institutes of Health response to the petition of the American Anti-Vivisection Society to prohibit the use of animals in the production of monoclonal antibodies.
M. Halder, M.J. Embleton, R. Fischer, B. de Geus, C. Hendriksen, W.A. de Leeuw, U. Marx & M. Balls

CONFERENCE REPORT

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

Animal rights and wrongs: a biblical perspective / Target 2000: reducing animal experiments by 50%

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