A Two-centre Evaluation of the Human Organotypic Skin Explant Culture Model for Screening Contact Allergens

ATLA Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 553-561

  Lehé, Cynthia L ^a   Jacobs, John J L ^b,c   Elliott, Graham R ^b,d   Das, Pranab K ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Derphartox   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accelerated Langerhans cell migration; Contact allergens; Human alternative model; Interlaboratory study

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ALLERGEN;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDERMIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN ORGANOTYPIC EXPLANT SKIN CULTURE MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LANGERHANS CELL; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SKIN CULTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1242339776     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290303100604     Document Type: Article

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