ATLA :: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 31, Number 6
December 2003

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
The future of non-human primates as laboratory animals in Great Britain: please don't build the Cambridge laboratory!

NEWS AND VIEWS

ECVAM NEWS AND VIEWS

ARTICLES

A two-centre evaluation of the human organotypic skin explant culture model for screening contact allergens.
C.L. Lehé, J.J.L. Jacobs, G.R. Elliott & P.K. Das

Cryopreservation of organotypic brain spheroid cultures.
W.M. Purcell, C.K. Atterwill & J. Xu

Microarray assessment of fibronectin, collagen. and integrin. expression and the role of fibronectin-collagen coating in the growth of normal, SV40 T-antigen-immortalised and malignant human oral keratinocytes.
Z. Sarang, Y. Haig, A. Hansson, M. Vondracek, L. Wärngård & R.C. Grafström

Carbaryl-induced behavioural and reproductive abnormalities in the earthworm Metaphire posthuma: a sensitive model.
S.K. Gupta & P.N. Saxena

COMMENT

The mouse bioassay for diarrhetic shellfish poisoning: a gross misuse of laboratory animals and of scientific methodology.
R.D. Combes

Botulinum toxin testing in animals: the questions remain unanswered.
M. Balls

CONFERENCE DIARY

SELECTED TITLES

AUTHOR INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX