Fukui Yoshihiro, Ema Makoto, Fujiwara Michio, Higuchi Hashihiro, Inouye Minoru, Iwase Takayuki, Kihara Takahide, Nishimura Tatsuya, Oi Akihide, Ooshima Yojiro, Otani Hiroki, Shinomiya Mitsuhiro, Sugioka Kozo, Yamano Tsunekazu, Yamashita Keisuke H, Tanimura Takashi
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Neurobiology, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.
Congenit Anom (Kyoto). 2004 Sep;44(3):172-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2004.00030.x.
In September 2003, a new revision of the draft guideline (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] Guideline for the Testing of Chemicals, Proposal for a New Guideline 426, Developmental Neurotoxicity Study) was distributed. The draft guideline consists of 51 paragraphs and an appendix. The National Coordinators were requested to arrange national expert reviews of the guideline proposal in their member countries. The member of the Behavioral Teratology (BT) Committee of the Japanese Teratology Society (JTS) reviewed, discussed and commented on the draft Test Guideline proposal. The BT Committee of the JTS also commented that the International Collaborative Study to validate this protocol should be definitely performed. These comments were sent to the OECD Secretariat. The BT Committee of the JTS expects that the comments are useful for further discussion.
