ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 26, Number 6
November/December 1998

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Screening for endocrine disruptors -- time for more science and less politics

NEWS AND VIEWS

LETTER FROM CAAT

ARTICLES

ECVAM Workshop Report

Validation of alternative methods for the potency testing of vaccines.
C. Hendriksen, J-M. Spieser, A. Akkermans, M. Balls, L. Bruckner, K. Cussler, A. Daas, J. Descamps, R. Dobbelaer, J. Fentem, M. Halder, M. van der Kamp, R. Lucken, J. Milstien, D. Sesardic, D. Straughan & A. Valadares

The availability of human tissue for biomedical research.
R. Anderson, M. O'Hare, M. Balls, M. Brady, D. Brahams, A. Burt, C. Chesné, R. Combes, A. Dennison, B. Garthoff, G. Hawksworth, E. Kalter, A. Lechat, D. Mayer, V. Rogiers, D. Sladowski, J. Southee, J. Trafford, J. van der Valk & A-M. van Zeller

The development and characterisation of a structure-activity relationship model of the Draize eye irritation test.
H.S. Rosenkranz, Y.P. Zhang & G. Klopman

Report on the COLIPA workshop on mechanisms of eye irritation.
L.H. Bruner, O. de Silva, L.K. Earl, D.L. Easty, W. Pape & H. Spielmann

In vitro models of the blood-brain barrier.
P. Garberg

SHORT NOTE

Co-occurring words: finding information about alternatives to animal testing.
J. Huggins

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

Conflict or concord?: animal welfare and the World Trade Organization / Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800 / Genetic engineering: dreams & nightmares

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