Report on toxicology

Clinical Chemistry Division Commission on Toxicology Subcommittee on Toxicology of Selenium*

Chairman: Y. Thomassen (Norway); Members: J. Aaseth (Norway); G. Alfthan (Finland); D. Behne (FRG); H. A. Das (Netherlands); H. T. Delves (UK); R. M. Griffin (USA); M. Ihnat (Canada); V. Iyengar (FRG); 0. A. Levander (USA); Mirna Mikac-Devic (Yugoslavia); J. Pikkarainen (Finland); Marion F. Robinson (New Zealand); M. Stoeppler (FRG); Christine D. Thomson (New Zealand); R. T. Tulley (USA); C. Ve...

Workgroup Report: National Toxicology Program Workshop on Hormonally Induced Reproductive Tumors—Relevance of Rodent Bioassays

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) is currently reviewing its research portfolio as part of its efforts to implement the NTP Roadmap to achieve the NTP Vision for the 21st century. This review includes a recent workshop, "Hormonally Induced Reproductive Tumors-Relevance of Rodent Bioassays," held 22-24 May 2006, that was organized to determine the adequacy and relevance to human disease outc...

Report of a symposium on the use of genomics and proteomics in toxicology.

Over the past few years, and especially since publication of the sequence of the human genome (International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, 2001), there has been increasing pressure to incorporate novel technologies such as proteomics and genomics into toxicological risk assessment. The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and its sister C...

Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology

Workshop on fiber toxicology research needs.

A great deal of toxicological and epidemiological data are available for asbestos and a wide variety of other mineral and manmade fibers. Experimental animal data suggest that certain fiber characteristics are responsible for observed biological effects such as cancer. An important fiber characteristic appears to be fiber size (length, diameter, aspect ratio); however, other characteristics suc...