15th Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing – Linz 2008
& 12th Annual Meeting of MEGAT – Middle European Society for Alternative Methods to Animal Testing

Approved continuing education by Swiss association of cantonal veterinarians.

September 19th-21st 2008, Linz, Austria

 

Poster (download)

(in alphabetical order of the first author)
 
All abstracts are available on the website of ALTEX.
 

Human HepaRG® hepatocytes for the detection of toxic metabolic pathways
Maria-Jesus Almela, Yann Courbebaisse, Pedro A. Torres, Esperanza Herreros, Ruoya Li, Nathalie Rougier, Christophe Chesne
BIOPREDIC International, (Rennes) (FR)

IL-1α release quantification in culture media: how to ensure standardization?
Frédéric Amaral, Damien Lelièvre, José Cotovio
L'Oreal Research, Life Sciences (Aulnay Sous Bois) (FR)

In vitro skin irritation assessment of colored and colorant-like chemicals using the ECVAM validated EpiSkinTM assay: the need of appropriate and relevant controls
Frédéric Amaral, Caroline Chesneau, Elodie Lambert, Laure Martin, Damien Lelièvre, Marie-Hélène Grandidier, José Cotovio
L'OREAL Research (Aulnay Sous Bois) (FR)

In vitro model for evaluation of Zineb induced oxidative stress, immunsupression and apoptosis
Sonu Ambwani
GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Pantnagar) (IN)

Protective effects of herbal cosmetic ingredients assessed in cell and tissue cultures and in human studies
Hana Bendová0, Kristina Kejlová0, Dagmar Jírová0, Marek Malý0, Hana Kolářová1
0 National Institute of Public Health (Prague) (CZ)
1 Medical Faculty of Palacký University (Olomouc) (CZ)

A combined assay measuring binding and enzymatic activity allows in vitro detection of tetanus toxicity in vaccines
Heike A. Behrensdorf-Nicol, Ursula Bonifas, Birgit Kegel, Katja Silberbach, Karin Weisser, Beate Krämer
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Langen) (DE)

Potency testing of inactivated rabies vaccines for veterinary use: correlation of results between mouse challenge test and serological assay
Heike A. Behrensdorf-Nicol, Heidelore Schildger, Kay-Martin Hanschmann, Karin Duchow, Beate Krämer
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Langen) (DE)

The use of precision cut lung slices to assess nanoparticle mediated toxicity
Susanne Boehn0, Alexander Boeser1, Robert Landsiedel0, Bennard van Ravenzwaay0
0 BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) (DE)
1 Mannheim University of Applied Sciences (Mannheim) (DE)

An epithelial airway model to study the effects of gold nanoparticles deposited at the air-liquid interface
Christina Brandenberger0, Anke-Gabriele Lenz1, Christian Mühlfeld0, Otmar Schmid1, Konrad Ludwig Maier1, Peter Gehr0, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser0
0 Institute of Anatomy (Bern) (CH)
1 Helmholtz Zentrum Munich (Munich) (DE)

Towards a European Science without Animal Experiments
Gemma Buckland0, Emily McIvor1, Gill Langley0
0 Dr Hadwen Trust (Hitchin) (GB)
1 HSI (GB)

   

In vitro acute skin irritancy of 184 cosmetic ingredients using the validated EPISKIN model protocol
José Cotovio0, Damien Lelièvre0, Marie Hélène Grandidier0, Roland Roguet1, Estelle Tinois-Tessoneaud2, Jacques Leclaire1
0 L'Oreal Research, Life Sciences (Aulnay Sous bois) (FR)
1 L'Oreal Research, Life Sciences (Clichy La Garenne) (FR)
2 SkinEthic Laboratories (Lyon) (FR)

Optimized 1H/16H SkinEthic human corneal epithelial (HCE) protocol to predict ocular irritancy: application to a large set of 400 industrial chemicals
José Cotovio0, Marie-Hélène Grandidier0, Carole Amsellem1, Jean-Marc Ovigne0, Damien Lelièvre0, Christophe Capallere2, Jean-Roch Meunier0, Jacques Leclaire3
0 L'OREAL Research (Aulnay Sous Bois) (FR)
1 SkinEthic Laboratories (Lyon) (FR)
2 SkinEthic Laboratories (Nice) (FR)
3 L'OREAL Research (Clichy) (FR)

Challenging the legal basis of the rodent carcinogenicity test in UK
Alistair Currie
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Europe (London) (UK)

Towards a standardized trans-epithelial electrical resistance measurement on in vitro cutaneous and ocular reconstructed models
Thomas Delanne, Damien Lelièvre, José Cotovio
L'Oréal (Aulnay Sous Bois) (FR)

Growth of squamous carcinoma cells under the influence of chemotherapeutic agents
Trevor DeVaney, Sabine Reinisch
Medical University of Graz (Graz) (AT)

Correction of surface tension induced refraction artefacts at the meniscus interface in multiwell plates
Trevor DeVaney, Wolfgang Sax, Florian Platzer
Medical University of Graz (Graz) (AT)

Primary porcine alveolar epithelial cells (pAEpC) as a model for drug permeability assays
Helena Eixarch, Anne Steimer, Eleonore Haltner, Udo Bock
Across Barriers GmbH (Saarbruecken) (DE)

The antiproliferative activity of the Holocene grain wash out can be enhanced by HulFN-Alpha N3 but not with the rHulFN-Alpha 2
Bratko Filipic0, Branko Kesteli1, Tatjana Sindik-Milosevic2, Srecko Koren0, Evgen Šooš3
0 Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana) (SI)
1 Stjepana Kukeca 21 (Koprivnica) (HR)
2 Institute of Immunology (Zagreb) (HR)
3 Trg Sv. Ivana 5 (Klostar Ivanic) (HR)

Cell-growth promoting fractions originated from bovine blood clot in combination with the porcine ocular fluid
Bratko Filipic0, Srecko Sladoljev1, Lidija Gradisnik2, Avrelija Cencic3, Eva Ruzic-Sabljic0, Srecko Koren0
0 Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana) (SI)
1 Institute of Immunology (Zagreb) (HR)
2 Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maribor (Maribor) (SI)
3 Faculty of Agriculture;Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor (Maribor) (SI)

In vitro study of the toxicity induced by Nickel and Cobalt particles on human lung cells
Efrat Forti0, Susan Salovaara0, Yuksel Cetin0, Anna Bulgheroni0, Pilar Prieto0, Walter Pfaller1
0 European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra) (IT)
1 Innsbruck Medical University (Innsbruck) (AT)

   

Characterisation of a new human renal proximal tubular cell line (RPTEC/TERT1), generated by the introduction of telomerase activity
Leonhard Guber0, Sinikka Prajczer0, Jan Boei1, Matthias Wieser2, Regina Voglauer2, Walter Pfaller0, Paul Jennings0
0 Innsbruck Medical University, (Innsbruck) (AT)
1 Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden) (NL)
2 University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Vienna) (AT)

One step further towards computer assisted simulation of percutaneous absorption to avoid animal experiments – the combination of experiment and simulation effectively helps to identify new important parameters
Steffi Hansen0, Tsambika Hahn0, Arne Naegel1, Michael Heisig1, Gabriel Wittum1, Dirk Neumann2, Ulrich Schaefer0
0 Saarland University (Saarbruecken) (DE)
1 Heidelberg University (Heidelberg) (DE)
2 Center for Bioinformatics (Saarbruecken) (DE)

Drug metabolizing enzyme activity in human in vitro dermal (EpiDerm™) and airway (EpiAirway™) epithelial models
Patrick Hayden, Helena Kandarova, Jennifer Bolmarcich, George Jackson, Howard Cohen, Gina Stolper, Mitchell Klausner
MatTek Corporation (Ashland) (US)

Healing of dermal wounds in the EpiDerm-FT™ in vitro human skin model
Patrick Hayden, Helena Kandarova, Gina Stolper, Carolyn Cooney, Mitchell Klausner
MatTek Corporation (Ashland) (US)

Development of a predictive in vitro test module for developmental neurotoxicity testing using mouse embryonic stem cells
Katrin Hayess, Dana Sittner, Birgitta Slawik, Anke Visan, Horst Spielmann, Andrea Seiler
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) (Berlin) (DE)

The reference laboratory concept in the United States: Successfully combining in vitro testing services and an education program in a non-profit Institute
E.H. Hill, Rodger Curren, H.A. Raabe
Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) (US)

The Hen`s Egg Testing on the Chorioallantoic Membrane – a model for multiple purposes
Daniel Hollwedel0, Manfred Walzl1, Barbara Kapeller2, Juergen Frank0, Harald Schoeffl0, Karin Macfelda2, Udo Losert2
0 zet – Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing (Linz) (AT)
1 Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna (Vienna) (AT)
2 Core Unit for Biomedical Research, Medical University Vienna (Vienna) (AT)

A new human hepatocyte cell line as a vantage point for a new generation of organoid liver test systems?
Anke Hoppensack, Lisa Kaschel, Johanna Schanz, Kirstin Linke, Heike Mertsching
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (Stuttgart) (DE)

Alternative endpoints in the LLNA in order to reduce false positive results
A.H.B.M. van Huygevoort, R.P.L. van Swelm, M.H.M. van Tuyl, H.H. Emmen, M. Stitzinger
NOTOX B.V. ('s-Hertogenbosch) (NL)

Alternatives across Latin America: catalysing change in the curriculum
Nick Jukes
InterNICHE (Leicester) (GB)

   

Three’s a crowd: the 1R of replacement for education and training
Nick Jukes0, Siri Martinsen1
0 InterNICHE (Leicester) (GB)
1 InterNICHE Norway (Oslo) (NO)

Phototoxicity of essential oils intended for cosmetic use
Kristina Kejlová0, Dagmar Jírová0, Hana Bendová0, Miloslav Petrů0, Hana Kolářová1
0 National Institute of Public Health (Prague) (CZ)
1 Medical Faculty of Palacký University (Olomouc) (CZ)

Nanotoxicity: application of atomic force microscopy and novel nanoparticle measurement technology
Ferry Kienberger0, Gerald Kada0, Andreas Ebner1, Peter Hinterdorfer1
0 Agilent Technologies Austria (Linz) (AT)
1 University of Linz (Linz) (AT)

Towards an in vitro model for xenobiotic passage at the materno-fetal interface based on permanent cell lines
Carsten Kneuer, Vera Ritz, Ursula Gundert-Remy, Karen-Ildico Hirsch-Ernst
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Berlin) (DE)

The beginning of the end for chimpanzee experiments?
Andrew Knight
Animal Consultants International (London) (GB)

Non-animal methodologies within biomedical research and toxicity testing
Andrew Knight
Animal Consultants International (London) (GB)

In vitro differentiation of skin sensitizers by cell signaling pathways
Lydia Mareen Koeper0, Andrea Schulz1, Hans Jürgen Ahr0, Hans-Werner Vohr0
0 Bayer HealthCare AG (Wuppertal) (DE)
1 Florence-Nightingale-Krankenhaus, Kaiserswerther Diakonie (Düsseldorf) (DE)

Functional assays are mandatory for a correct prediction of immunosuppressant properties of compounds in vitro
Lydia Mareen Koeper, Hans-Werner Vohr
Bayer HealthCare AG (Wuppertal) (DE)

Generation of functional astrocytes from embryonic stem cells to assess neurodevelopmental toxicants and CNS-active drugs
Philipp Kuegler, Suzanne Kadereit, Bastian Zimmer, Marcel Leist
Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for in vitro alternative methods to animal experiments (Konstanz) (DE)

Developmet of a new reconstituted human corneal model to assess the ocular irritating test
Su Hyon Lee
MCTT Inc. (SEOUL) (KR)

   

Prevalidation study for testing the toxic effects of inhalable substances (gases) on human lung cells using an air/liquid culture technique
Manfred Liebsch0, Lena Smirnova0, Julian Tharmann0, Mario Bauer1, Carolin Braebsch1, Gunter Linsel2, Rosa Siemers2, Christine Otto2, Edith Berger-Preiß3, Heiko Kock3, Antje Oertel3, Detlef Ritter3, Jan Knebel3
0 Federal institute for Risk Assessment (BfR);Center for Alternative Methods to Animals Experiments - ZEBET (Berlin)
1 Helmhotz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ (Leipzig)
2 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) (Berlin)
3 Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM) (Hannover)

Use of in vivo bioluminescence imaging for the investigation of bacterial infection courses and heterologous gene expression of bacterial vectors with small groups of mice
Holger Loessner0, Kathrin Wolf1, Siegfried Weiss1
0 Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Langen) (DE)
1 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (Braunschweig) (DE)

Caco-2 adenocarcinoma on chicken embryos chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) as an alternative to mammalian models for preclinical tests of new cytostatic drug formulations
Brigitta Loretz, Ulrich F. Schaefer, Claus-Michael Lehr
Saarland University (Saarbrücken) (DE)

ARPE-19 retinal pigment epithelia cells as an in vitro model for the examination of light induced cell damage in the eye
Mohammad Reza Lornejad-Schäfer, Christine Schäfer, Harald Schöffl, Jürgen Frank
zet – Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing (Linz) (AT)

Nanotechnology and contact allergy
Jakob Torp Madsen0, Peter Bollen1, Ann-Therese Karlberg2, Carl Simonsen2, Stefan Vogel1, Jeanne Duus Johansen1, Klaus Ejner Andersen0
0 Odense University Hospital (Odense C) (DK)
1 University of Southern Denmark (Odense C) (DK)
2 Göteborg University (Göteborg) (SE)

Training the animal doctor: Caring as a clinical skill
Siri Martinsen
InterNICHE Norway (Oslo) (NO)

Dynamic 3D in vitro intestinal test system
Jacqueline Michaelis
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (Stuttgart) (DE)

Confrontation cultures of embryonic stem cell-derived embryoid bodies and multicellular tumour spheroids: a novel in vitro model for the study of tumour-induced angiogenesis
Nada Milosevic0, Sabine Lange0, Andreas Finkensieper1, Madeleine Hannig1, Maria Wartenberg1, Heinrich Sauer0
0 Justus Liebig University Giessen (Giessen) (DE)
1 Friedrih Schiller University Jena (Jena) (DE)

Assessment of corneal surface impairment and early signs of eye irritation on reconstructed human corneal epithelium
Marisa Meloni0, Barbara De Servi0, Beatrice Le Varlet1
0 VitroScreen Srl (Milano) (IT)
1 Links Ingenierie (Paris) (FR)

Swiss court bans work on Macaque brains
Claudia Mertens, Barbara Schnüriger
Zürcher Tierschutz (Zürich) (CH)

   

New animal model for objective pain research: Non-invasive functional imaging in anesthetized animals by BOLD fMRI to study initial processes of chronic pain
Nicole Jennifer Motzkus0, Marina Sergejeva0, Lubos Budinsky0, Kay Brune1, Andreas Hess0
0 FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen) (DE)
1 Doerenkamp Professorship, Innovations in Animal and Consumer Protection, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen) (DE)

Improved toxicity prediction for safety assessment of drugs during preclinical drug development using relevant hepatic and cardiac cell lines
Fozia Noor, Jens Niklas, Alexander Strigun, Simone Beckers, Elmar Heinzle
Saarland University (Saarbruecken) (DE)

In vitro micronucleus assay using a co-culture sytem: towards new tools for in vitro risk assessment of dermally applied compounds?
Gladys Ouédraogo, Michèle Feltès, Linda Bourouf, Nicole Flamand, Jean-Roch Meunier
L'Oréal (Aulnay sous bois) (FR)

The Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Alternatives to the use of animals in life sciences
Shiranee Pereira and Maneka Gandhi
People for Animals (New Delhi) (India)

The use of histopathology to improve the predictive capacity of the Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability (BCOP) assay
H.A. Raabe, J.R. Nash, Rodger Curren
Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) (US)

The Comet Assay in the Phenion® Full Thickness Model as a putative tool for improved in vitro genotoxicity testing
Kerstin Reisinger
Phenion GmbH & Co KG (Düsseldorf) (DE)

Implementation of in silico models in the cosmetic industry to face the 7th Amendment of the European Cosmetics Directive
Stéphanie Ringeissen, Reine Note, Catherine Dochez, Nicole Flamand, Gladys Ouedraogo-Arras, Jean-Roch Meunier
L'Oréal Recherche (Aulnay-sous-Bois) (FR)

Analysis of potential toxicity caused by genetically modified plants: A combination of in vitro methods as an alternative to feeding studies
Dieter Runge0, Olivia Pansch0, Kristin Kastl0, Mandy Bruch1, Andre Kacholdt1, Hendrik Rudolf0, Elmar Mohr1, Anett Ullrich0
0 PRIMACYT Cell Culture Technology GmbH (Schwerin) (DE)
1 University of Rostock (Rostock) (DE)

The human dopaminergic neuronal cell line LUHMES as in vitro model for Parkinson´s disease
Stefan Schildknecht
University of Konstanz (Konstanz) (DE)

Current activities of the foundation Animalfree Research (AfR), formerly Fonds für versuchstierfreie Forschung (FFVFF)
Stefanie Schindler
AnimalfreeResearch (Zürich) (CH)

   

Development of an in vitro cultivation system for the haemotrophic bacterium Mycoplasma Suis
Sabrina A. Schreiner0, Katharina Hoelzle0, Max M. Wittenbrink0, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann1, Ludwig E. Hoelzle0
0 Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology (Zurich) (CH)
1 Clinical Laboratory (Zurich) (CH)

Bringing toxicology into the 21st century: A global call to action
Troy Seidle0, Martin Stephens1, Andrew Rowan1
0 Humane Society International (Toronto) (CA)
1 Humane Society of the United States (Washington, DC) (US)

A simple and inexpensive in vitro model to study the effects of hypoxia on pulmonary epithealial and microvascular endothelial cells
Sara Signorelli0, Paul Jennings0, Martin Leonard1, Walter Pfaller0
0 Innsbruck Medical University (Innsbruck)
1 University College Dublin (Dublin)

Novel test lung for real life supported simulation
Katharina Stiglbrunner, Markus Wurm, Clemens Jagerhofer, Jacqueline Mader, Andreas Drauschke, Peter Krösl
FH Technikum Wien (Vienna) (AT)

Assessment of DNA oxidation by Nitroheterocyclic compounds using cultured YAC-1 cells
Alois Strasser, Harald Kühnel, Günter Marik, Ivo Schmerold
University of Veterinary Medicine (Vienna) (AT)

Influence of danger signals” on CD54 and CD86 marker expression in THP-1 cells - Improvement by HaCaT-Coculture
Dominik Stuhlmann
Phenion GmbH & Co KG (Düsseldorf) (DE)

Non-Animal Approaches to Inhalation Toxicity Assessment: A Proposal for a Way Forward
Kristie Sullivan, Chad Sandusky
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Washington) (US)

Gene expression analysis in chemical-treated dendritic cells: Discriminating contact sensitisers and irritants employing the immune toxicity chip and a whole genome array
Sandra Szameit, Klemens Vierlinger, Letizia Farmer, Helga Tuschl, Christa Nöhammer
Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC (Seibersdorf) (AT)

Opportunities and threats for animals during the implementation of REACH
Katy Taylor
BUAV (London) (GB)

Recommendations for the revision of Directive 86/609/EEC from the European animal protection movement
Katy Taylor
BUAV (London) (GB)

The continued need for a cruelty-free standard for cosmetics
Katy Taylor, Rebecca Ram
BUAV (London) (GB)

Estimates for Worldwide Laboratory Animal Use
Katy Taylor0, Nicky Gordon1, Gill Langley1
0 BUAV (London) (GB)
1 Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research (Hitchin) (GB)

SkinEthic’ Reconstructed Human Epidermis (RHE) model: Development of an alternative method for skin irritation testing
Carine Tornier0, Carole Amsellem1, Mylène Pelleter1, Jean-Roch Meunier2, Anne deBrugerolle de Fraissinette0, Nathalie Alépée2
0 SkinEthic (Nice) (FR)
1 Episkin (Lyon) (FR)
2 L'Oréal (Aulnays-sous-Bois) (FR)

Daphnia magna as alternative bioobject in ecotoxicology
Valerii Tonkopii
Institute of Limnology,Rus.Acad.Sci. (St. Petersburg) (RU)

Surface modification influences the in vitro toxicity of gold nanoparticles in human alveolar type-II cell lines
Chiara Uboldi, Susanne Barth, Ronald E. Unger, C. James Kirkpatrick
Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz) (DE)

The Perspectives of integration of humane education in Armenia
Armen Vardapetyan
National Center of Bioethics (Yerevan) (AM)

Quantitation of sensitizing potential by the loose-fit coculture-based sensitization assay (LCSA) in comparison with LLNA-data
Reinhard Wanner
Charité (Berlin) (DE)

Metabolism studies of the Phenion® full thickness skin model as compared to other in vitro models and human native skin
Christian Wiegand
Phenion GmbH & Co KG (Düsseldorf) (DE)

Cell based assay for label-free, long-term investigation of living cells as alternative testing method for toxicity
Joachim Wiest0, Daniel Grundl1, Michael Schmidhuber1, Marlies Brückl1, Martin Brischwein1, Helmut Grothe1, Angela M. Otto1, Bernhard Wolf1
0 cellasys GmbH (Munich) (DE)
1 Technische Universität München - Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Elektronik (Munich) (DE)

Application of an intelligent testing strategy to the US EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
Catherine Willett0, Kristie Sullivan1
0 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Norfolk, VA) (US)
1 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Washington, DC) (US)

Progress in sharing data from repeated dose toxicity studies
Emma Williamson, Katharine Briggs
Lhasa Limited (Leeds) (GB)

Development of an in vitro test system for developmental neurotoxicity
Bastian Zimmer, Philipp B. Kügler, Suzanne Kadereit, Marcel Leist
Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for Alternative methods (Konstanz)

A human corneal model for the prediction of eye irritation: progress report
Michaela Zorn-Kruppa, Heike Scholz
German Animal Welfare Federation (Neubiberg) (DE)