A battery of cell toxicity assays as predictors of eye irritation: a feasibility study
H S Rosenkranz1, A R Cunningham
1Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals : ATLA
|August 22, 2014
Abstract:
The newly developed "chemical diversity approach" was used to determine whether or not it is likely that a panel of in vitro cell toxicity assays capable of predicting in vivo eye irritation could be assembled. The analyses, based upon available and validated structure-activity relationship models of toxicity in cultured human HeLa cells and murine Balb/c 3T3 cells, indicate that a battery of cytotoxicity tests could provide a viable alternative to the animal-based procedure.


