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ICCVAM Recommends Non-animal In Vitro Method to Identify Potential Endocrine-active Substances
- Type: News
- Published: 2012-02-16
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The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) recently evaluated the usefulness of a non-animal test method that can identify substances with the potential for interacting with the estrogen receptor in vitro. As announced in today's Federal Register, ICCVAM recommended to Federal agencies that this test method, the BG1Luc ER TA, can be used as a screening test to identify substances with in vitro estrogen agonist and antagonist activity.