1.
Toxicol Pathol
; 42(3): 472-86, 2014.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24178583
ABSTRACT
The Scientific and Regulatory Policy Committee of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) appointed a working group to address risk assessment for increases in alveolar macrophages following inhalation of pharmaceutical materials. This position paper provides recommendations for inhalation study-specific terminology and interpretation based on literature and information from marketed inhaled drugs. Based on a weight-of-the-evidence approach, and with appropriate consideration of the physical and pharmacological characteristics of the compound, uncomplicated increases in the size or number of alveolar macrophages in nonclinical species are interpreted as nonadverse.
Subject(s)
Biomedical Research , Inhalation Exposure , Macrophages, Alveolar , Toxicity Tests , Animals , Biomedical Research/methods , Biomedical Research/standards , Cell Size , Macrophages, Alveolar/cytology , Macrophages, Alveolar/drug effects , Rats , Risk Assessment , Societies, Scientific , Toxicity Tests/methods , Toxicity Tests/standards
2.
Exp Toxicol Pathol
; 65(1-2): 39, 2013 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21676604