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51. Current trends in safety testing and toxicological research

Author

G. Zbinden

Subjects
High probability, Clinical Trials as Topic, Experimental model, business.industry, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, General Medicine, Toxicology, United States, Risk analysis (engineering), Animals, Drug Evaluation, Humans, Medicine, Safety, Current (fluid), Adverse effect, business, Safety testing, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

The paper reviews current concepts of toxicological evaluation of new drugs and other chemicals. Instead of completing a predetermined check-list toxicologists now consider the potential adverse effects of the substances under actual conditions of use. They then design experimental models which have a high probability to predict the toxic effects. Moreover, the enhanced susceptibilities of special risk populations is more and more taken into consideration.

Published
1982

52. Neurobiology of learning and memory: The honeybee as a model system

Author

Randolf Menzel

Subjects
Cognitive science, Time Factors, Computer science, Model system, General Medicine, Bees, Models, Psychological, Biological Evolution, Memory, Short-Term, Memory, Animals, Learning, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

Conditioning experiments with bees demonstrate surprising similarities between the well studied laboratory mammals and honeybees. These similarities appear both on the behavioral level and the neural organization of memory. The paper speculates on the basis of these similarities, and the idea of common neural elements is favored.

Published
1983