Alternative methods: success, failures and promises 20th anniversary congress of the Société Française de Pharmaco-Toxicologie Cellulaire, 9–10 March 2006
Guest Editors: Francelyne Marano and Alain Vandewalle
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Editorial
Francelyne Marano and Alain Vandewalle
223-239
Endothelial progenitor cells: Characterization, in vitro expansion, and prospects for autologous cell therapy
D. M. Smadja, A. Cornet, J. Emmerich, M. Aiach and P. Gaussem
241-256
In vitro
models of intestinal epithelial cell differentiation
P. Simon-Assmann, N. Turck, M. Sidhoum-Jenny, G. Gradwohl and M. Kedinger
257-266
Transimmortalized proximal tubule and collecting duct cell lines derived from the kidneys of transgenic mice
C. Chassin, M. Bens and A. Vandewalle
267-278
Human glomerular mesangial IP15 cell line as a suitable model for
in vitro
cadmium cytotoxicity studies
B. L’Azou, I. Dubus, C. Ohayon-Courtès and J. Cambar
279-292
Development of a hemicornea from human primary cell cultures for pharmacotoxicology testing
N. Builles, N. Bechetoille, V. Justin, V. André and V. Barbaro, et al.
293-302
Preclinical cardio-safety assessment of torsadogenic risk and alternative methods to animal experimentation: The inseparable twins
B. M. Dumotier and A. V. Georgieva