title: Pharmacokinetics and expert systems as aids for risk assessment in reproductive toxicology.
abstract: A minimal approach to risk assessment in reproductive toxicology involves four components: hazard identification, hazard characterization, exposure characterization, and risk characterization. In practice, risk assessment in reproductive toxicology has been reduced to arbitrary safety factors or mathematical models of the dose-response relationship. These approaches obscure biological differences across species rather than using this important and frequently accessible information. Two approaches that are formally capable of using biologically relevant information (pharmacokinetics and expert system shells) are explored as aids to risk assessment in reproductive toxicology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Mattison
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Jelovsek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005103:Expert Systems; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D010599:Pharmacokinetics; D010920:Placenta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D012306:Risk; D013045:Species Specificity; D013723:Teratogens / Q000633:toxicity
chemical_list: D013723:Teratogens