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ArticleCutaneous and ocular toxicology2023

Further optimisation of a macromolecular ocular irritation test (OptiSafe

Stewart Lebrun, Sara Chavez, Linda Nguyen, Roxanne Chan

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Article in Cutaneous and ocular toxicology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Washing with buffered vitamin C after corrosive chemical (sodium hypochlorite) exposure reduces ocular depth of injury.Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA · 2025
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  2. Evaluation of a New In Chemico Skin Corrosion Test.Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA · 2024
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  3. Expansion of the application domain of a macromolecular ocular irritation test (OptiSafe™).Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stewart LebrunLebrun Labs LLC, Anaheim, CA, USA.
Sara ChavezLebrun Labs LLC, Anaheim, CA, USA.
Linda NguyenLebrun Labs LLC, Anaheim, CA, USA.
Roxanne ChanLebrun Labs LLC, Anaheim, CA, USA.

Funding

Non-Animal Test Method to Determine the Ocular Safety of Consumer Products and Chemicals: Phase IIR44ES025501 · NIEHS · LEBRUN LABS, LLC · PI LEBRUN, STEWART · 2019 to 2020
$1.5M
A Nonanimal Test Method to Determine the Ocular Safety of Consumer Products and Chemicals: CommercializationSB1ES025501 · NIEHS · LEBRUN LABS, LLC · PI LEBRUN, STEWART · 2022 to 2023
$296k
NIEHS NIH HHS R44 ES025501NIEHS NIH HHS SB1 ES025501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeOptiSafe MATERIALS AND

methodsThe OS test measures chemically induced damage to macromolecules and relates these measured values to ocular irritancy. To improve the performance of OS, we made updates to the material to be tested physiochemical handling procedures, prediction model, and test method to include tear-level concentrations of ascorbic acid. We then retested the 78 chemicals from the prior OS-coded validation study in triplicate and compared the accuracy of the 'nonirritant versus irritant' prediction for the further optimized method with the prior results.

resultsWe report that for the detection of 'nonirritant' versus 'irritant' (GHS NC versus categories 2B/A and 1) test substances, the further optimized OS test with ascorbic acid compared with the original version has a FP rate that is reduced from 40.0 to 22.2%, the false-negative (FN) rate remains at 0.0%, and the accuracy improved from 80.3% to 89.2%.

conclusionA comparison to OECD-adopted tests demonstrates that the further optimized OS test, like the original method, has a higher accuracy and lower FN rate for the detection of 'nonirritants' versus 'irritants' (GHS Category NC versus 2B/A and 1) than the other eye irritation tests (BCOP, EpiOcular

Indexed as

Animal Testing AlternativesEyeAnimalsAscorbic AcidHumansIrritantsRabbitsAscorbic AcidIrritantsantioxidanteyeOcular irritationOptiSafevalidation

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PMID36669195
PMCPMC10381028
OpenAlexW4317679212

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