Meeting Report: In Vitro Teratology

In vitro teratology.

The purpose of this conference was to reevaluate the need for and use of in vitro teratology assays; to examine the validation process for in vitro tests; and to discuss progress in the validation of in vitro teratology screens. Participants enthusiastically supported further development of short-term in vivo and in vitro systems both as prescreens for developmental toxicity and as experimental...

The future of teratology research is in vitro

Birth defects induced by maternal exposure to exogenous agents during pregnancy are preventable, if the agents themselves can be identified and avoided. Billions of dollars and manhours have been dedicated to animal-based discovery and characterisation methods over decades. We show here, via a comprehensive systematic review and analysis of this data, that these methods constitute questionable ...

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exhibited their new instruments in 1400 booths. Of the 900 papers presented at the conference, the following from the symposium on 'Process analysers' dealt with automated stream analysis for process control. Gibbon and Hackett [1] described the use of automated research-quality gas chromatographs to analyse the effluents from bench-scale coal gasification or liquefaction equipment. The high sp...

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Type of your presentation 1) Invited lecture 2) Poster presentation 3) Workshop / Symposium 4) Others (Please explain specifically below () Title of your presentation Cell type-specific inhibitory inputs to dendritic and somatic compartments of parvalbumin-expressing neocortical interneuron. 1. Summary of your presentation (Include what you learned from discussions with audience) Par...