Comments from the Behavioral Teratology Committee of the Japanese Teratology Society on OECD guideline for the testing of chemicals, proposal for a new guideline 426, developmental neurotoxicity study, draft document (September 2003).
In September 2003, a new revision of the draft guideline (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] Guideline for the Testing of Chemicals, Proposal for a New Guideline 426, Developmental Neurotoxicity Study) was distributed. The draft guideline consists of 51 paragraphs and an appendix. The National Coordinators were requested to arrange national expert reviews of the guideline proposal in their member countries. The member of the Behavioral Teratology (BT) Committee of the Japanese Teratology Society (JTS) reviewed, discussed and commented on the draft Test Guideline proposal. The BT Committee of the JTS also commented that the International Collaborative Study to validate this protocol should be definitely performed. These comments were sent to the OECD Secretariat. The BT Committee of the JTS expects that the comments are useful for further discussion.
Fukui
Yoshihiro
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Department of Anatomy and Developmental Neurobiology, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.
Ema
Makoto
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Fujiwara
Michio
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Higuchi
Hashihiro
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Inouye
Minoru
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Iwase
Takayuki
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Kihara
Takahide
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Nishimura
Tatsuya
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Oi
Akihide
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Ooshima
Yojiro
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Otani
Hiroki
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Shinomiya
Mitsuhiro
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Sugioka
Kozo
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Yamano
Tsunekazu
T
Yamashita
Keisuke H
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Tanimura
Takashi
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