Since 2002, a workshop entitled "Asthma in animal models" has been held once a year in Hannover, Germany. It is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in collaboration with the collaborative research centre "Sonderforschungsbereich" 587, "Immune reactions of the lung in infection and allergy" (Hannover Medical School). The aim of these meetings is an inten...

The purpose of this paper is to present some of the more carefully studied aspects of the preclinical toxicology of antineo-plastic agents, and apply these findings (with certain obvious cautions) to the area of environmental toxicology. Most of the studies to be described here are the result of applied toxicologic studies performed in support of the clinical introduction of new chemicals in th...

Allan W. Ader, Ph.D., DABT, Principal Toxicologist, John P. Farris, B.S., CIH, President and Managing Principal, and Robert H. Ku, Ph.D., DABT, Principal Toxicologist, are the founders of SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. (SafeBridge), 1924 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, California, USA. SafeBridge is a health and safety consulting firm to the pharmaceutical and chemical industry with services ...

Rutaecarpine is a pentacyclic indolopyridoquinazolinone alkaloid found in Evodia rutaecarpa and other related herbs. It has a variety of intriguing biological properties, which continue to attract the academic and industrial interest. Studies on rutaecarpine have included isolation from new natural sources, development of new synthetic methods for its total synthesis, the discovery of new biolo...

In the last issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), editor-in-chief, Dr. Reza Afshari focused on an important contemporary issue of empowering toxicology in the Asia pacific region (1). The topic drew our attention and we would like to share the situation of Bangladesh in light of this editorial. Dr. Afshari correctly emphasized on forming national societies of medical toxi...

Legal and medical practitioners need to remember that, with respect to drug analysis, there are two distinct disciplines in analytical toxicology concerned with human biological matrices, namely clinical and forensic toxicology. Both fields use similar analytical techniques designed to detect and quantify drugs, chemicals and poisons in fluids or tissues. In clinical toxicology, analytical resu...

In the editorial by Dr. Reza Afshari “Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Asia Pacific Region” published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT) (1), the role of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT) in promoting medical toxicology has been discussed and some suggestions have been made regarding how to promote this field of medical sciences in the region. The...