TEST SUBSTANCE EVALUATION METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a test substance evaluation method of evaluating an effect exerted by an orally-taken test substance on eelworms as a method of solving the problems: a vast number of chemical substances exist today, and these chemical substances include toxic substances such as agrichemicals, physiologically active substances, heavy metals, and air pollution gases, and useful substances such as drugs and dietary supplements, while higher animals such as mice, rats, dogs, and monkeys, are used for evaluating the effect of the chemical substances, but the use of higher animals requires a great deal of labor, time, and cost, while the use of bacteria does not allow higher-order life phenomenon such as morphogenesis and organogenesis to be observed, and also, there is a big gap between bacteria and multicellular organisms in their metabolic systems. SOLUTION: According to this test substance evaluation method, the effect of an orally-taken test substance on biological functions is evaluated by breeding eelworms in a culture medium containing a microcapsule filled with the test substance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT