Future of developmental toxicity testing

Current and future needs for developmental toxicity testing.

A review is presented of the use of developmental toxicity testing in the United States and international regulatory assessment of human health risks associated with exposures to pharmaceuticals (human and veterinary), chemicals (agricultural, industrial, and environmental), food additives, cosmetics, and consumer products. Developmental toxicology data are used for prioritization and screening...

Transcriptomics in developmental toxicity testing

Reproductive toxicity testing is one of the most complex, expensive and labor intensive fields of toxicology (Leist et al. drastically demonstrate the fundamental importance of reliable developmental toxicity tests for human safety (van Recently, human embryonic stem cell based in vitro test systems have been established that recapitulate critical periods of human early development (Krug et al....

Neurobehavioral aspects of developmental toxicity testing.

Tests for detection of neurobehavioral changes in the offspring have been a regulatory requirement in developmental toxicity testing of drugs for almost 20 years. Keeping their purpose of hazard identification and risk assessment for humans in mind, investigators and agency reviewers have become deeply ingrained with some stereotyped behaviors with respect to such relevant issues as choice of a...

Important issues in developmental toxicity testing

Correspondence address: Assoc Prof. Eduard Ujházy, PhD. Department of Reproductive Toxicology, Institute of Experimental Pharmacology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia, e-mail: [email protected] Studies of individual development and its possible deterioration have been the concern since the 19th century, when Etienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire (1772...

The Use of Pluripotent Cells in Developmental Toxicity Testing