An evaluation of the predictive ability of the QSAR software packages, DEREK, HAZARDEXPERT and TOPKAT, to describe chemically-induced skin irritation

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-24

  Mombelli, Enrico ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

Author keywords

Expert systems; QSAR; Skin irritation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SKIN IRRITATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 41149153371     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290803600104     Document Type: Article

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