The read-across hypothesis and environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals [PDF]
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright © 2013 American Chemical Society.Pharmaceuticals in the environment have received increased attention over the past decade, as they are ubiquitous in rivers and ...
Margiotta-Casaluci, L +5 more
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Chemical Safety Assessment Using Read-Across: Assessing the Use of Novel Testing Methods to Strengthen the Evidence Base for Decision Making [PDF]
Background: Safety assessment for repeated dose toxicity is one of the largest challenges in the process to replace animal testing. This is also one of the proof of concept ambitions of SEURAT-1, the largest ever European Union research initiative on ...
Alfonso M. Lostia +23 more
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Human cell-based test methods can be used to evaluate potential hazards of mixtures and products of petroleum refining (“unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological materials” substances, UVCBs).
Alexandra C. Cordova +7 more
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Toward Good Read-Across Practice (GRAP) guidance. [PDF]
Grouping of substances and utilizing read-across of data within those groups represents an important data gap filling technique for chemical safety assessments.
Ball, N +28 more
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Nanoparticles have been proposed as tunable delivery vehicles for targeted treatments and, in some cases, the active therapeutic agents themselves. Despite the promise of such customizable impacts, little evidence exists to support these claims in the ...
Thelma Ameh +4 more
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A generalizable definition of chemical similarity for read-across [PDF]
Background: Methods that provide a measure of chemical similarity are strongly relevant in several fields of chemoinformatics as they allow to predict the molecular behavior and fate of structurally close compounds.
Benfenati, Emilio +5 more
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Neuroactive drugs and other pharmaceuticals found in blood plasma of wild European fish
To gain a better understanding of which pharmaceuticals could pose a risk to fish, 94 pharmaceuticals representing 23 classes were analyzed in blood plasma from wild bream, chub, and roach captured at 18 sites in Germany, the Czech Republic and the UK ...
Daniel Cerveny +9 more
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Quantitative cross-species extrapolation between humans and fish: The case of the anti-depressant fluoxetine [PDF]
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Fish are an important model for the pharmacological and toxicological characterization of human pharmaceuticals in drug discovery, drug safety assessment and ...
ABA Boxall +80 more
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CPANNatNIC software for counter-propagation neural network to assist in read-across
Background CPANNatNIC is software for development of counter-propagation artificial neural network models. Besides the interface for training of a new neural network it also provides an interface for visualisation of the results which was developed to ...
Viktor Drgan +4 more
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Addressing a bottle neck for regulation of nanomaterials: quantitative read-across (Nano-QRA) algorithm for cases when only limited data is available [PDF]
The number and variety of engineered nanoparticles have been growing exponentially. Since the experimental evaluation of nanoparticles causing public health concerns is expensive and time consuming, efficient computational tools are amongst the most ...
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