Use of category approaches, read-across and (Q)SAR: General considerations

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-12

  Patlewicz, Grace ^a   Ball, Nicholas ^b   Booth, Ewan D ^c   Hulzebos, Etje ^d   Zvinavashe, Elton ^e   Hennes, Christa ^f  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b DOW EUROPE GMBH   (Switzerland)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d Liebergerweg 72 98   (Netherlands)

^e AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals   (Belgium)

Author keywords

(Q)SAR; Analogue approach; Category approach; Data gap filling; REACH; Read across

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EYE IRRITATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; READ ACROSS; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 84879829369     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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