Induction of thyroid tumours in (C57BL/6N x C3H/N)F1 mice by oral administration of Kojic acid

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 697-703

  Fujimoto, N ^b   Watanabe, H ^a   Nakatani, T ^b   Roy, G ^b   Ito, A ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antithyroid drug; Kojic acid; Mice; T3; T4; Thyroid tumorigenesis; TSH

Indexed keywords

KOJIC ACID; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADENOMA; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DIET; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOTOXINS; ORGAN SIZE; PYRONES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACARI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031873516     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(98)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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