Future of toxicology--a shift in the paradigm: focus on human disease.

Chem Res Toxicol

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.

Published: September 2006

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