Food for thought Mechanistic validation

Altex

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-130

  Hartung, Thomas ^a,b   Hoffmann, Sebastian ^b,c   Stephens, Martin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Seh Consulting + Services   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternatives to animal testing; Regulatory toxicology; Systems biology; Tox 21c, validation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION; MECHANISTIC VALIDATION; PATHOGENESIS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; TOXICOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84877615913     PISSN: 1868596X     EISSN: 18688551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14573/altex.2013.2.119     Document Type: Article

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