Abstract
Assuming that data from predictive tests are interpreted prudently by dermatotoxicologists with extensive training in quantitative structure-activity relationships, animal and human predictive assays combined with broad clinical experience should aid rational risk-benefit decision making.
Adapted from E. Patrick and H. Maibach (1989) Dermatotoxicology: In: A. Wallace Hayes (ed.) Principles and Methods of Toxicology, 2nd edn. Raven Press, New York, Chap. 13.
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Patrick, E., Maibach, H.I. (1992). Predictive Assays: Animal and Man, and In Vitro and In Vivo. In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Benezra, C. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13119-0_34
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