Interventional pharmacology is one of medicine's most potent weapons against disease. These drugs, however, can result in damaging side effects and must be closely monitored. Pharmacovigilance is the field of science that monitors, detects, and preve...
Exposure to certain chemicals such as disinfectants through inhalation is suspected to be involved in the development of pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease in which lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred. Pulmonary fibrosis is known to be regulated ...
Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA
Apr 4, 2019
Repeated dose toxicity evaluation aims at assessing the occurrence of adverse effects following chronic or repeated exposure to chemicals. Non-animal approaches have gained importance in the last decades because of ethical considerations as well as d...
In 2016, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act became the first US legislation to advance chemical safety evaluations by utilizing novel testing approaches that reduce the testing of vertebrate animals. Central to this miss...
Journal of environmental science and health. Part C, Environmental carcinogenesis & ecotoxicology reviews
Mar 1, 2019
Humans and wildlife inhabit a world with panoply of natural and synthetic chemicals. Alarmingly, only a limited number of chemicals have undergone comprehensive toxicological evaluation due to limitations of traditional toxicity testing. High-through...
Journal of environmental science and health. Part C, Environmental carcinogenesis & ecotoxicology reviews
Jan 10, 2019
In silico toxicity prediction plays an important role in the regulatory decision making and selection of leads in drug design as in vitro/vivo methods are often limited by ethics, time, budget, and other resources. Many computational methods have bee...
Journal of environmental science and health. Part C, Environmental carcinogenesis & ecotoxicology reviews
Jan 10, 2019
We introduce here ML4Tox, a framework offering Deep Learning and Support Vector Machine models to predict agonist, antagonist, and binding activities of chemical compounds, in this case for the estrogen receptor ligand-binding domain. The ML4Tox mode...
G-Networks and their simplified version known as the Random Neural Network have often been used to classify data. In this paper, we present a use of the Random Neural Network to the early detection of potential of toxicity chemical compounds through ...
Human lungs are susceptible to the toxicity induced by soluble xenobiotics. However, the direct cellular effects of many pulmonotoxic chemicals are not always clear, and thus, a general in vitro assay for testing pulmonotoxicity applicable to a wide ...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Apr 6, 2018
A novel tool, the DAMTA analyzer (Device for Analytical Monitoring and Toxicity Assessment), designed for fully automated toxicity measurements based on luminescent bacteria as well as for concomitant determination of chemical parameters, was develop...
Join thousands of healthcare professionals staying informed about the latest AI breakthroughs in medicine. Get curated insights delivered to your inbox.