Title: In vitro skin irritation test: Increasing the sensitivity of the EpiDerm skin irritation protocol evaluated in the ECVAM skin irritation validation study
Abstract: An interlaboratory comparison of a new model of the human epidermis (EpiDerm) was conducted using a range of anionic and non-ionic surfactants and surfactant-containing final formulations. The toxicity of the materials was estimated by MTT conversion, using both concentration (EC50) and time (ET50) protocols. A range of 16 compounds was tested on different production lots of EpiDerm following storage periods of 1 and 2 days (after shipping) at MatTek and at two independent testing laboratories, Microbiological Associates (MA), USA and Scotland, UK. The EC50 and ET50 values were compared and the least squares fit lines with resulting correlation coefficients (r) calculated. Correlation of in vitro results to human clinical chamber irritation and repeat handwash testing gave r values ranging from 0.977 to 0.993 and comparison of the results obtained in the independent laboratories with the site of manufacture was good (MA, USA, r = 0.84; MA, UK, r = 0.74). The model appears to have utility in predicting clinically observed dermal irritation in vitro which is reproducible in different laboratories and after transatlantic shipping, such that it is worthy of further investigation.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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