Safety assessment of rice genetically modified with soybean glycinin by feeding studies on rats

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1881-1886

  Momma, Keiko ^a   Hashimoto, Wataru ^a   Yoon, Hye Jin ^a   Ozawa, Sachiko ^a   Fukuda, Yasuki ^b   Kawai, Shigeyuki ^a   Takaiwa, Fumio ^c   Utsumi, Shigeru ^a   Murata, Kousaku ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chukyo Junior College   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal feeding study; Food safety; Genetically modified rice; Soybean glycinin

Indexed keywords

GLOBULIN; GLYCININ; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; GENETICS; HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RICE; SAFETY; SOYBEAN; STANDARD; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; GLOBULINS; HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SAFETY; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0034278208     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.64.1881     Document Type: Article

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