Predictors of alcohol and other drug treatment completion among young people accessing residential and community-based treatment: A retrospective analysis of routinely collected service data.

Background And Aims: Young people accessing alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment experience high rates of treatment disengagement, contributing to poorer outcomes. To improve outcomes, it is important to identify factors associated with treatment retention. This study measured the relationships between client characteristics, treatment characteristics, clinical severity measures and completion of treatment among young people.

Assessment of no-observed-effect-levels for DNA adducts formation by genotoxic carcinogens in fetal turkey livers.

For genotoxic carcinogens, covalent binding to DNA is a critical initiating event in tumorigenesis. The present research investigated dose-effect relationships of three genotoxic carcinogens representing different structural classes, 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF), benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) and quinoline (QUI), to assess the existence of no-observed-effect-levels (NOELs) for the formation of DNA adducts. Carcinogens were administered into the air sac of fertilized turkey eggs over wide dose ranges in three daily injections on days 22 to 24 of incubation.

Repeated dose toxicity study to assess the safety and reproductive/developmental safety of 7-methyl-2H-1,5-Benzodioxepin-3(4H)-One (Calone®) and the read across approach to its biodegradation metabolite 7-methyl-2H-1,5-benzodioxepin-3-ol (Calol).

7-Methyl-2H-1,5-benzodioxepin-3(4H)-one (Calone®) is used in fragrances to impart a marine note. It is produced industrially at volumes requiring repeated dose and developmental/reproductive toxicology data (OECD TG 422) under European chemicals legislation (i.e.

The BlueScreen HC assay to predict the genotoxic potential of fragrance materials.

BlueScreen HC is a mammalian cell-based assay for measuring the genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of chemical compounds and mixtures. The BlueScreen HC assay has been utilized at the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials in a safety assessment program as a screening tool to prioritize fragrance materials for higher-tier testing, as supporting evidence when using a read-across approach, and as evidence to adjust the threshold of toxicological concern. Predictive values for the BlueScreen HC assay were evaluated based on the ability of the assay to predict the outcome of in vitro and in vivo mutagenicity and chromosomal damage genotoxicity assays.

Chronic Occupational Mold Exposure Drives Expansion of -Reactive Type 1 and Type 2 T-Helper Cell Responses.

Occupational mold exposure can lead to -associated allergic diseases including asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Elevated IL-17 levels or disbalanced T-helper (Th) cell expansion were previously linked to -associated allergic diseases, whereas alterations to the Th cell repertoire in healthy occupationally exposed subjects are scarcely studied. Therefore, we employed functional immunoassays to compare Th cell responses to antigens in organic farmers, a cohort frequently exposed to environmental molds, and non-occupationally exposed controls.