the global clearinghouse for information on alternatives to animal testing

Search Altweb

Alternative Methods in Toxicology

Volume 1 - Product Safety Evaluation

Series Editor: ALAN M. GOLDBERG

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Publishers

Table of Contents

Part One

1. The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
   Alan Goldberg
2. Historical Perspective on Safety Testing
   Jacqueline Karnell Corn
3. Legal Requirements for Safety Testing of Cosmetics
   Stephen H. McNamara
4. Regulatory Considerations Regarding Safety Testing
   Albert C. Kolbye
5. Industrial Practices in Safety Testing
   Edward M. Jackson

Part Two

1. Role of Toxic Oxygen Products in Lung Damamge
   Peter A. Ward
2. The Integrated Response of Skin to Toxic Stimuli
   Edward A. Smuckler
3. Immunologic Mechanisms of Cutaneous Diseases
   Thomas T. Provost

Part Three

1. Alternatives: Interaction Between Science and Animal Welfare
   Andrew N. Rowan

Part Four

1. Alternatives in Toxicity Testing
   K.J. Falahee, C.S. Rose, H.E. Seifried, and D. Sawhey
2. Development of a Procedure Using the Chick Egg as an Alternative to the Draize Rabbit Test
   Joseph Leighton, Joyce Nassauer, Ruy Tchao, and Judith Verdone
3. Alternative Approaches to the Draize Assay: Chemotaxis, Cytology, Differentiation, and Membrane Transport Studies
   D.M. Stark, C. Shopsis, E. Borenfreund, and J. Walberg
4. In Vitro Occular Irritancy Testing
   William H.J. Douglas and Stanley D. Spilman
5. Excitable Cells in Culture: Alternative for Acute Toxicity Testing
   C.R. Horres
6. An In Vitro Alternative for Testing the Effect of Organophosphates on Neurotoxic Esterase Activity
   Albert Fedalei and Roland M. Nardone
7. A Process to Regulate Tissue Function In Vitro: Alternative to In Vivo Tests
   Michael L. Gruenberg and John J. Peluso
8. An In Vitro Test for Predicting the Photosensitizing Potential (PSP) of Various Chemicals
   Daniel McAuliffe, Warwick L. Morison, and John A. Parrish
9. Analysis of Photon Emission Rates in Luminescence-Deficient Strains of Photobacterium: An Alternative Approach to Evaluating Genotoxic Properties of Chemical Products
   Stanley Scher
10. A Model for Toxicological Prediction
    Raymond M. Tamura
11. Theoretical Predictions of Toxicity
    Joyce J. Kaufman, Vitor Lewchenko, P.C. Hariharan, and Walter S. Koski