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The GARD Test<br />

A Novel Assay for Prediction of Skin Sensitisers<br />

Malin Lindstedt & Carl Borrebaeck<br />

Department of Immunotechnology<br />

Lund University<br />

Biomedical Centre D13<br />

SE-22184 Lund, Sweden<br />

malin.lindstedt@immun.lth.se<br />

carl.borrebaeck@immun.lth.se<br />

Website: sens-it-iv.eu<br />

Background & Objectives<br />

Prediction of sensitising properties of chemicals used within industry and research is<br />

an important aspect of safety assessment of chemicals. Such predictions are currently<br />

performed with the use of the mouse Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA) (Basketter et<br />

al., 2002). Due to European legislation that regulates the use of animals within, e.g.,<br />

cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, the need of novel assays is urgent. Yet to<br />

date, no validated non-animal replacements are available for identification of sensitising<br />

substances. An in vitro alternative to these animal models should exhibit improved<br />

reliability, accuracy and importantly correlate to human reactivity. The objective of<br />

the here reported research has thus been to develop in vitro assays for prediction of<br />

sensitising chemicals.<br />

GARD—the ‘Genomic Allergen Rapid Detection’ test (Johansson et al., 2011)—is such<br />

an assay, which has been developed for assessing the ability of a compound to induce<br />

skin sensitisation, which results in the disease known as allergic contact dermatitis<br />

(ACD). GARD is based on MUTZ-3 (Mastersson et al., 2002), a myeloid cell line with a<br />

phenotype and transcriptional profile similar to dendritic cells (DCs), which are essential<br />

for the initiation of the immune response leading up to ACD. The readout of the assay<br />

is the analysis of the transcriptional levels of 200 genes, which has been identified<br />

as differentially regulated in sensitisers, compared to non-sensitisers. Following data<br />

acquisition from DNA microarrays, the predictions are performed with a machine-<br />

This assay was developed within the 6 th framework Sens-it-iv programme.<br />

Partner: Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Sweden<br />

Contract number: LSHB-CT-2005-018681<br />

AXLR8-2 WORKSHOP REPORT<br />

Progress Report 2011 & AXLR8-2 Workshop Report<br />

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