ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 27, Number 3
May/June 1999

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

New measures on animal experimentation in the UK will improve animal welfare and scientific research.

NEWS AND VIEWS

3RD WORLD CONGRESS

LETTER FROM THE NCA

ARTICLES

Joint Congress of the Scandinavian Society of Cell Toxicology and the Estonian Society of Toxicology

Cellular and molecular targets of benzo[a]pyrene and metal toxicity in Xenopus laevis embryos and in Hep G2 cells.
M. Camatini, P. Bonfanti, A. Colombo, C. Urani & S. Crippa

EDIT: a new international multicentre programme to develop and evaluate batteries of in vitro tests for acute and chronic systemic toxicity.
B. Ekwall, C. Clemedson, B. Ekwall, P. Ring & L. Romert

The effects of oxidative stress in in vitro cultured astroglial cells.
C.M. Frederiksen & J. Clausen

Predicting the toxicity of oil-shale industry wastewater by its phenolic composition.
A. Kahru, L. Põllumaa, R. Reiman & A. Rätsep

Can cytotoxic effects induced by industrial chemicals be time-dependent?
E. Kuchowicz & K. Rydzynski

Phytotoxicities of selected chemicals and industrial effluents to Nitellopsis obtusa cells, assessed by using a rapid electrophysiological charophyte test.
L. Manusadzianas, R. Vitkus, R. Pörtner & H. Märkl

Oxidative DNA damage in human cells induced by paraquat.
H. Petrovská & M. Dusinská

Toxicity of mercury to hybridoma TA7 cells.
I. Remez, P. Andersons & H. Veksler

Apoptosis versus cytotoxicity in HeLa cells exposed to paracetamol.
K. Ruppová, M. Urbancíková, L. Wsólová & D. Slamenová

Volatile organic compounds in Tartu office buildings.
A. Soon & E. Kähkönen

Retinal pigment epithelial cell cultures as a tool for evaluating retinal toxicity in vitro.
H. Tähti, H. Mäenpää, L. Salminen & T. Toimela

Use of the Daphnia magna test to estimate the toxicity of the ozonation by-products of phenols and chlorophenols.
M. Trapido & Y. Veressinina

Evaluation of a short-term rat proximal tubule incubation for the detection of nephrotoxicants.
R. Elton, P. Rhodes & J.R. Fry

In vitro testing of the responses of human gingival fibroblasts and L-929 cells to nicotine.
G. Ciapetti, G. Remiddi, F. Savioli, G. Monaco, G. Ori & L. Checchi

The use of a germination bioassay as a toxicological screening system to study the potential drug-drug interactions of (S)-naproxen and (s)-ibuprofen and their corresponding oxidative state analogues, (S)-naproxol and (S)-ibuprofen alcohol.
M. Gonzálex-de la Parra, V. Tejeda & M. Jimenez-Estrada

Establishment of an embryotoxicity assay with green fluorescence protein-expressing embryonic cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
S. Bremer, M. van Dooren, M. Paparella, E. Kossolov, B. Fleischmann & J. Hescheler

AROUND THE WORLD

Launch of the Belgian Platform for Alternative Methods

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEWS

Improving nature.

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