Nonanimal alternatives for skin sensitization: A step forward?

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Basketter, David A ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIOXIDANT; CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL WELFARE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; COMPUTER MODEL; DENDRITIC CELL; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; GENE FUNCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; KERATINOCYTE; LAW; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN SENSITIZATION; TERATOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALLERGENS; ANIMAL USE ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; LYMPH NODES; NAD(P)H DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TESTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 39149086709     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfm299     Document Type: Editorial

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