Safety assessment of BT 176 maize in broiler nutrition: Degradation of maize-DNA and its metabolic fate

Archives of Animal Nutrition

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-252

  Tony, M A ^a,e   Butschke, A ^a   Broll, H ^a   Grohmann, L ^b   Zagon, J ^a   Halle, I ^c   Danicke S ^c   Schauzu, M ^a   Hafez, H M ^d   Flachowsky, G ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b GeneScan Analytics GmbH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Broiler performance; Digestion; Direct DNA uptake; Maize; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; BURSA FABRICII; CALCULATION; CHICKEN; CHLOROPLAST; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METABOLISM; EVALUATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE CONSTRUCT; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEMATOCRIT; HYBRID; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PLANT GENETICS; SPLEEN; THIGH; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DIGESTION; DNA, PLANT; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAFETY; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; INSECTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242539880     PISSN: 1745039X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039420310001594397     Document Type: Article

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