Subchronic toxicity study of water pepper extract in F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1236-1244

  Kuroiwa, Keiko ^a   Shibutani, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Lee, Kyoung Youl ^a   Woo, Gye Hyeong ^a   Hirose, Masao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

F344 rats; Polygodial; Polygonum hydropiper L.; Subchronic toxicity; Water pepper extract

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORIDE; HEMOSIDERIN; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYGODIAL; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER PEPPER EXTRACT;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MAST CELL; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPLEEN; TESTIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYGONUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SESQUITERPENES;

ANIMALIA; PERSICARIA HYDROPIPER;

EID: 33745201590     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

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