Prolonged oral treatment with an essential amino acid L-leucine does not affect female reproductive function and embryo-fetal development in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1505-1511

  Mawatari, Kazunori ^a   Katsumata, Toyohisa ^b   Uematsu, Masanobu ^b   Katsumata, Tomoyoshi ^b   Yoshida, Junichi ^a   Smriga, Miro ^a   Kimura, Takeshi ^a  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b BoZo Research Center Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal development; Fetus; L leucine; Pregnancy; Rat

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; LEUCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMPLANTATION; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LEUCINE; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERATOGENS;

EID: 3042561480     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2004.04.013     Document Type: Article

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