ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 31, Number 4
September 2003

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
What price vanity? No end in sight for the cosmetics testing saga

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

ARTICLES

Growing old disgracefully: the cosmetic use of botulinum toxin.
K. Bottrill

SAR modelling of complex phenomena: probing methodological limitations.
H. S. Rosenkranz

Platinum toxicity and gene expression in Xenopus embryos: analysis by FETAX and differential display.
C. Monetti, G. Bernardini, D. Vigetti, M. Prati, S. Fortaner, E. Sabbioni & R. Gornati

The immunohistochemical characterisation of an SV40-immortalised human corneal epithelial cell line.
A. Huhtala, S.K. Nurmi, H. Tähti, L. Salminen, P. Alajuuma, I. Rantala, H. Helin & H. Uusitalo

Evaluation of peristalsis in multiple segments of the guinea-pig isolated small intestine: optimisation of tissue use by refined in vitro methodology.
P. Holzer, A. Shahbazian, E. Painsipp & A. Heinemann

ECVAM WORKSHOP REPORT

Three Rs approaches in the quality control of inactivated rabies vaccines.
L. Bruckner, K. Cussler, M. Halder, J. Barrat, R Castle, K. Duchow, D.M. Gatewood, R. Gibert, J. Groen, B. Knapp, R. Levis, C. Milne, S. Parker, K. Stünkel, N. Visser & P. Volkers

CONFERENCE DIARY

BOOK REVIEW

SELECTED TITLES