Four-week oral toxicity study of functional food containing superfine dispersed Lentinan (β-1,3-glucan) in rats

Biotherapy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 568-577

  Odagiri, Yasuteru ^a   Watari, Nobuaki ^b   Suga, Tetsuya ^a   Masuyama, Takeshi ^a  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b Foods Drugs and Pesticides (An Pyo Center)   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,3 glucan; 4 week oral toxicity study; Lentinan

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; LENTINAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; URINALYSIS;

EID: 33846136047     PISSN: 09142223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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