ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 29, Number 4
July/August 2001

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Animal procedures remain vital to biomedical research: it ain't necessarily so

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

ARTICLES

ECVAM WORKSHOP REPORT

Novel advanced in vitro methods for long-term toxicity testing
W. Pfaller, M. Balls, R. Clothier, S. Coecke, P. Dierickx, B. Ekwall, B.A. Hanley, T. Hartung, P. Prieto, M.P. Ryan, G. Schmuck, D. Sladowski, J-A. Vericat, A. Wendel, A. Wolf & J. Zimmer

Guidelines for the design and statistical analysis of experiments in papers submitted to ATLA.
M.F.W. Festing

The use of bootstrap resampling to assess the uncertainty of Cooper statistics.
A.P. Worth & M.T.D. Cronin

Lead inhibits growth and induces apoptosis in normal rat fibroblasts.
I. Iavicoli, G. Carelli, A. Sgambato, 0. Masci, R. Ardito, A. Cittadini & N. Castellino

COMMENT

The current status of food additives toxicity testing and the potential for application of the Three Rs.
C.L. Broadhead & R.D. Combes

In Vitro Toxicology Industrial Platform (IVTIP) position paper, 9 February 2001: the role of an industrial platform in the area of in vitro testing.
IVTIP Secretariat

AROUND THE WORLD

Summary: EU standards measurements and testing project PL95-3407. Development of a standardised in vitro methodology for hepatic and renal toxicity testing.

CONFERENCE REPORT

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEW

Pain: its nature and management in man and animals

VIDEO REVIEW

Humane endpoints -- lethal parameters: humane endpoints replace lethal parameters in batch potency tests of rabies vaccines

SELECTED TITLES