Acute models are being used to support an increasing number of application areas including (1) product research and development, (2) product approval and registration as well as (3) the transport, storage and handling of chemicals. The adoption of such models is being hindered, in part, because of a lack of guidance describing how to perform and document an analysis. To address this issue, a framework for an acute toxicity hazard assessment is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo ensure patient safety, medical device manufacturers are required by the Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory bodies to perform biocompatibility evaluations on their devices per standards, such as the AAMI-approved ISO 10993-1:2018 (ANSI/AAMI/ISO 10993-1:2018).However, some of these biological tests (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFData in this article depict patterns of methylation in lung tissues obtained from the offspring of B6129SF1/J dams and 129S1/SvImJ sires exposed to benzo[]pyrene (BaP) or dibenzo[]chrysene (DBC) as compared to non-exposed offspring. Genome-wide methylation of lung tumors in adult offspring was determined using methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) with the NimbleGen mouse DNA methylation CpG island array. This data article refers to the research article "DNA methylation in lung tissues of mouse offspring exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons," [1] in which comprehensive data interpretation and analysis are provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) comprise an important class of environmental pollutants that are known to cause lung cancer in animals and are suspected lung carcinogens in humans. Moreover, evidence from cell-based studies points to PAHs as modulators of the epigenome. The objective of this work was to assess patterns of genome-wide DNA methylation in lung tissues of adult offspring initiated in utero with the transplacental PAH carcinogens dibenzo [def,p]chrysene (DBC) or benzo [a]pyrene (BaP).
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