The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM): Recent progress in the evaluation of alternative toxicity testing methods

Alternative Toxicological Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 15-30

  Stokes, William S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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