ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 30, Number 3
May / June 2002

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
Alternatives to animal experiments: "goodbye ECVAM, hello FRAME"

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

ARTICLES

Organotypic brain-slice cultures from adult rats: approaches for a prolonged culture time.
E. Wilhelmi, U.H. Schöder, A. Benabdallah, F. Sieg, J. Breder & K.G. Reymann

Evaluation of a rule base for identifying contact allergens by using a regulatory database: comparison of data on chemicals notified in the European Union with "structural alerts" used in the DEREK Expert System.
S. Zinke, I. Gerner & E. Schlede

Is it possible to replace stimulus animals by scent-filled cups in the social discrimination test?.
R. van den Bos, K.J. van der Horst, A.M. Baars & B.M. Spruijt

The Ninteenth Workshop of the Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicity

In vitro toxicity: mechanisms, alternatives and validation -- a report from the 19th annual scientific meeting of the Scandanavian Society for Cell Toxicology.
A. Forsby

Cytotoxicity of amino alcohols to rat hepatoma-derived Fa32 cells.
A. Forsby & P.J. Dierickx

Development of an in vitro test battery for the estimation of acute human systemic toxicity: an outline of the EDIT project.
C. Clemedson, M. Nordin-Andersson, H.F. Bjerregaard, J. Clausen, A. Forsby, H. Gustafsson, U. Hansson, B. Isomaa, C. Jørgensen, A. Kolman, N. Kotova, G. Krause, U. Kristen, K. Kurppa, L. Romert & E. Scheers

Morphology of cell injury: an approach to the EDIT programme by the use of tobacco pollen tubes.
U. Kristen, N. Bischoff, S. Lisboa, E. Schirmer, S. Witt & H. Quader

The comet assay with MCL-5 cells as an indicator of genotoxic treatment with chemicals and cigarette smoke condensate.
L. Wolz, G. Krause & G. Scherer

Chemical tests as alternatives to animal tests in research on late symptoms in diabetes.
M. Nielsen & J. Clausen

CONFERENCE DIARY

LETTER

BOOK REVIEWS

SELECTED TITLES