MEIC Evaluation of Acute Systemic Toxicity: Part VI. The Prediction of Human Toxicity by Rodent LD50 Values and Results From 61 In Vitro Methods

Affiliations

• ¹ CTLU, Stånga, Sweden.
• ² Department of Natural Sciences, York College, City University of New York, USA.
• ³ Environmental Toxicology, Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁴ School of Biomedical Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
• ⁵ Instituut voor Hygiene en Epidemiologie, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁶ Institute of General Pathology, Genova, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Genetics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
• ⁸ Departament de Farmacologia y Toxicologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
• ⁹ Cultivos Celulares, Centro Investigacion, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Institut für Toxicologie, Zelltoxikologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany.
• ¹¹ MD Laboratories, Bartenheim, France.
• ¹² Department of Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland.
• ¹³ Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Life Science and Chemistry, Roskilde, Denmark.
• ¹⁵ Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Environmental Health Sciences Division, National Institute of Environmental Studies - NIES, Ibaraki, Japan.
• ¹⁷ Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland.
• ¹⁸ Department of Animal Physiology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
• ¹⁹ CETA - Centre for Ethical Treatment of Animals, Moscow, Russia.
• ²⁰ RIKEN Cell Bank, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan.
• ²¹ Laboratory for Biological Research in Aquatic Pollution, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
• ²² Pharmacia and Upjohn, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²³ Biomedical Defence Section, Defence Research Establishment Suffield-DRES, Alberta, Canada.
• ²⁴ Vitro-Bio, Le Breuil-Sur-Couze, France.
• ²⁵ Umweltforschungs-zentrum, Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Leipzig, Germany.
• ²⁶ Department of Comparative Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma, Italy.
• ²⁷ Hatano Research Institute, Food and Drug Safety Center, Kanagawa, Japan.
• ²⁸ Universita di Ancona, Clinica del Lavoro, Ospedale Regionale, Ancona, Italy.
• ²⁹ Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nationale delle Recherche, Roma, Italy.