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Hazardous Substances Data Bank
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<h2 id="toxnet-databases">TOXNET databases</h2> <p>The Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) was a group of databases hosted on the <a href="/facts/National_Library_of_Medicine/Hzty0MCX">National Library of Medicine</a> (NLM) website that covered "chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, environmental health, occupational safety and health, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> TOXNET was managed by the NLM's Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) in the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>The TOXNET databases included:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <ol><li>HSDB: Hazardous Substances Data Bank <ul><li>Peer-reviewed toxicology data for over 5,000 hazardous chemicals</li></ul></li> <li>TOXLINE <ul><li>4 million references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/ChemIDplus/Hzty0MCX">ChemIDplus</a> <ul><li>Dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, and structures)</li></ul></li> <li>LactMed: Drugs and Lactation Database <ul><li>Drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed</li></ul></li> <li>DART: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Database <ul><li>References to developmental and reproductive toxicology literature</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/TOXMAP/uBTv6BJU">TOXMAP</a> <ul><li>Environmental Health Maps provides searchable, interactive maps of EPA TRI and Superfund data, plus US Census and NCI health data</li></ul></li> <li>TRI: <a href="/facts/Toxics_Release_Inventory/HDRlBGk6">Toxics Release Inventory</a> <ul><li>Annual environmental releases of over 600 toxic chemicals by U.S. facilities</li></ul></li> <li>CTD: <a href="/facts/Comparative_Toxicogenomics_Database/l8gxneBr">Comparative Toxicogenomics Database</a> <ul><li>Access to scientific data describing relationships between chemicals, genes and human diseases</li></ul></li> <li>Household Products Database <ul><li>Potential health effects of chemicals in more than 10,000 common household products</li></ul></li> <li>Haz-Map <ul><li>Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms</li></ul></li> <li>IRIS: Integrated Risk Information System <ul><li>Hazard identification and dose-response assessment for over 500 chemicals</li></ul></li> <li>ITER: International Toxicity Estimates for Risk <ul><li>Risk information for over 600 chemicals from authoritative groups worldwide</li></ul></li> <li>ALTBIB <ul><li>Resources on Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing</li></ul></li></ol> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet/index.html">TOXNET information</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Fonger GC (1995). "Hazardous substances data bank (HSDB) as a source of environmental fate information on chemicals". Toxicology. 103 (2): 137–45. Bibcode:1995Toxgy.103..137F. doi:10.1016/0300-483x(95)03145-6. PMID 8545846. <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1258455" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/1258455</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Fonger GC, Hakkinen P, Jordan S, Publicker S (2014). "The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB): background, recent enhancements and future plans". Toxicology. 325: 209–16. Bibcode:2014Toxgy.325..209F. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2014.09.003. PMC 4195797. PMID 25223694. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195797" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195797</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Fact Sheet – Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, September 2006, retrieved 29 August 2009 <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hsdbfs.html" target="_blank">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hsdbfs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Fonger GC, Hakkinen P, Jordan S, Publicker S (2014). "The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB): background, recent enhancements and future plans". Toxicology. 325: 209–16. Bibcode:2014Toxgy.325..209F. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2014.09.003. PMC 4195797. PMID 25223694. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195797" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195797</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Fact Sheet – TOXNET®: Toxicology Data Network". United States National Library of Medicine. Toxicology Data Network. Retrieved 4 January 2018. <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxnetfs.html" target="_blank">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxnetfs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Fact Sheet – TOXNET®: Toxicology Data Network". United States National Library of Medicine. Toxicology Data Network. Retrieved 4 January 2018. <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxnetfs.html" target="_blank">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxnetfs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"TOXNET Databases". United States National Library of Medicine. Toxicology Data Network. Retrieved 4 January 2018. <a href="https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/" target="_blank">https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>