Toxicology across scales: Cell population growth in vitro predicts reduced fish growth

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Environmental risk assessment of chemicals is essential but often relies on ethically controversial and expensive methods. We show that tests using cell cultures, combined with modeling of toxicological effects, can replace tests with juvenile fish. Hundreds of thousands of fish at this developmental stage are annually used to assess the influence of chemicals on growth. Juveniles are more sensitive than adult fish, and their growth can affect their chances to survive and reproduce. Thus, to reduce the number of fish used for such tests, we propose a method that can quantitativelypredict chemical impact on fishgrowthbasedonin vitro data. Ourmodel predicts reduced fish growth in two fish species in excellent agreement with measured in vivo data of two pesticides. This promising step toward alternatives to fish toxicity testing is simple, inexpensive, and fast and only requires in vitro data for model calibration.

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Stadnicka-Michalak, J., Schirmer, K., & Ashauer, R. (2015). Toxicology across scales: Cell population growth in vitro predicts reduced fish growth. Science Advances, 1(7). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500302

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