Machine learning of toxicological big data enables read-across structure activity relationships (RASAR) outperforming animal test reproducibility

T Luechtefeld, D Marsh, C Rowlands… - Toxicological …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Earlier we created a chemical hazard database via natural language processing of dossiers
submitted to the European Chemical Agency with approximately 10 000 chemicals. We …

[HTML][HTML] The US Federal Tox21 Program: A strategic and operational plan for continued leadership

RS Thomas, RS Paules, A Simeonov, SC Fitzpatrick… - Altex, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The traditional approaches to toxicity testing have posed multiple challenges for
evaluating the safety of industrial and environmental chemicals, pesticides, food additives …

[HTML][HTML] An analysis of the limitations and uncertainties of in vivo developmental neurotoxicity testing and assessment to identify the potential for alternative …

M Paparella, SH Bennekou, A Bal-Price - Reproductive Toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
Limitations of regulatory in vivo developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) testing and assessment
are well known, such as the 3Rs conflict, low throughput, high costs, high specific expertise …

Investigating cell type specific mechanisms contributing to acute oral toxicity

P Prieto, R Graepel, K Gerloff, L Lamon… - ALTEX-Alternatives to …, 2019 - altex.org
The replacement of animals in acute systemic toxicity testing remains a considerable
challenge. Only animal data are currently accepted by regulators, including data generated …

Comparison of in silico tools for evaluating rat oral acute toxicity

R Gonella Diaza, S Manganelli, A Esposito… - SAR and QSAR in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Different in silico models have been developed and implemented for the evaluation of
mammalian acute toxicity, exploring acute oral toxicity data expressed as median lethal …

In silico models for predicting acute systemic toxicity

I Tsakovska, A Diukendjieva, AP Worth - In Silico Methods for Predicting …, 2022 - Springer
In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the regulatory requirements for acute systemic
toxicity information in the European Union, and we review structure-based computational …

Limitations and uncertainties of acute fish toxicity assessments can be reduced using alternative methods

M Paparella, S Scholz, S Belanger, T Braunbeck… - …, 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Information about acute fish toxicity is routinely required in many jurisdictions for
environmental risk assessment of chemicals. This information is typically obtained using a …

[HTML][HTML] Fish as a bioindicator of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution in aquatic ecosystem of Ogun and Eleyele Rivers, Nigeria, and risk assessment for …

A Adewale, PI Adegbola, AO Owoade… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ogun and Eleyele Rivers in Nigeria are known to be prone to industrial wastes
pollution. Therefore, assessing Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination in fish …

Principles and procedures for assessment of acute toxicity incorporating in silico methods

CM Zwickl, JC Graham, RA Jolly, A Bassan… - Computational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acute toxicity in silico models are being used to support an increasing number of application
areas including (1) product research and development,(2) product approval and registration …

Evaluation of variability across rat acute oral systemic toxicity studies

AL Karmaus, K Mansouri, KT To, B Blake… - Toxicological …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Regulatory agencies rely upon rodent in vivo acute oral toxicity data to determine hazard
categorization, require appropriate precautionary labeling, and perform quantitative risk …