Read-across for Hazard Assessment: The Ugly Duckling is Growing Up

ATLA Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages P67-P71

  Teubner, Wera ^a   Landsiedel, Robert ^b  

^a BASF Schweiz AG Product Safety ^*

^b CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 84961060730     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: 26323559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119291504300617     Document Type: Note

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