Dominant lethal study of Spirulina maxima in male and female rats after short-term feeding

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-32

  Chamorro, Gérman ^a   Salazar, María ^a   Pages, Nicole ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Dominant lethal study; Hypocholesterolaemic; Hypolipidaemic; Spirulina algae; Toxicity evaluation

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DOMINANT LETHAL TEST; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPIRULINA; UTERUS;

EID: 0030022566     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199602)10:1<28::AID-PTR768>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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