Assessment of the carcinogenicity of stevioside in F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 597-603

  Toyoda, K ^a   Matsui, H ^a   Shoda, T ^a   Uneyama, C ^a   Takada, K ^a   Takahashi, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEVIOSIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; DITERPENES; DITERPENES, KAURANE; EATING; FEMALE; GLUCOSIDES; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TERPENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030956770     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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