Katerine S Saili, Jill A Franzosa, Nancy C Baker, Robert G Ellis-Hutchings, Raja S Settivari, Edward W Carney, Richard Spencer, Todd J Zurlinden, Nicole C Kleinstreuer, Shuaizhang Li, Menghang Xia, Thomas B Knudsen
The more than 80,000 chemicals in commerce present a challenge for hazard assessments that toxicity testing in the 21st century strives to address through high-throughput screening (HTS) assays. Assessing chemical effects on human development adds an additional layer of complexity to the screening, with a need to capture complex and dynamic events essential for proper embryo-fetal development. HTS data from ToxCast/Tox21 informs systems toxicology models, which incorporate molecular targets and biological pathways into mechanistic models describing the effects of chemicals on human cells, 3D organotypic culture models, and small model organisms...
June 1, 2019: Current Opinion in Toxicology