NOVEL TOXICITY ASSAY BASED ON HUMAN BLASTOCYST-DERIVED STEM CELLS AND PROGENITOR CELLS

摘要

The invention relates to an in vitro toxicity assay based on human blastocyst-derived stem cells for the detection of toxicity in the human species, which enables novel detection of in vitro human toxicity for a substance and/or more efficiently detects human toxicity compared to non-human assays. The invention can furthermore enable detection of toxicity for substances, which are known to display inter-species differences and the toxic effect was not detectable by toxicological tests in mice.