Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Transformation and Standardization of Transformation Assays of Established Cell Lines for the Prediction of Carcinogenic Chemicals: Overview and Recommended Protocols¹

This workshop was held at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, February 15 to 17, 1984. It was organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, and Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, and was partly sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. The organizers of the Workshop were H. Yamasaki (International Agency for Research on Cancer) and T. Kakunaga (National Cancer Institute); J. Little (Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA) and Kakunaga acted as Chairpersons; Little, Kakunaga, and L. M. Schechtman (Microbiological Associates, Bethesda, MD) acted as rapporteurs. The participants were G. A. Bannikov (All-Union Cancer Research Center, Moscow, USSR (unable to attend), J. M. Bechet, (International Agency for Research on Cancer), J. Bertram (Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY), I. Chouroulinkov (Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, Villejuif, France), E. Cortesi (Istituto Patologia Generate, Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy), T. Enomoto (International Agency for Research on Cancer), L. Haroun (International Agency for Research on Cancer), T. Kuroki (Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), J. R. Landoiph (Cancer Research Laboratory, University of S. California, Los Angeles, CA), R. Montesano (International Agency for Research on Cancer), S. Nesnow (Environmental Protection Agency (unable to attend)], R. Newbold (Chester Beatty Institute, London, United Kingdom), A. Sivak (Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA), M. Umeda (Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan), and J. C. M. van der Hoeven (Notox, Hertogenbosh, The Netherlands).