Skin sensitization in chemical risk assessment: Report of a WHO/IPCS international workshop focusing on dose-response assessment

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-199

  van Loveren, Henk ^a   Cockshott, Amanda ^b   Gebel, Tom ^c   Gundert Remy, Ursula ^d   de Jong, Wim H ^a   Matheson, Joanna ^e   McGarry, Helen ^b   Musset, Laurence ^f   Selgrade, MaryJane K ^g   Vickers, Carolyn ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Bootle ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^e US Consumer Product Safety Commission   (United States)

^f OECD   (France)

^g U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose response assessment; Elicitation potency; Guinea pig assay; Human patch test; Induction potency; Local lymph node assay; QSAR; Respiratory sensitization; Skin sensitization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ETHICS; GUINEA PIG; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH TEST; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMIUM; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LOCAL LYMPH NODE ASSAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERFUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SKIN DISEASES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA;

EID: 39149084022     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2007.11.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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