A 90-day safety study of genetically modified rice expressing Cry1Ab protein (Bacillus thuringiensis toxin) in Wistar rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-349

  Schrøder, Malene ^a   Poulsen, Morten ^a   Wilcks, Andrea ^a   Kroghsbo, Stine ^a   Miller, Andreas ^b   Frenzel, Thomas ^b   Danier, Jürgen ^c   Rychlik, Michael ^b   Emami, Kaveh ^d   Gatehouse, Angharad ^d   Shu, Qingyao ^e   Engel, Karl Heinz ^b   Altosaar, Illimar ^f   Knudsen, Ib ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Alte Akademie 10   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal study; Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry1Ab protein; Feeding trial; Food safety; Genetically modified rice; SAFOTEST; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN CRY1AB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RICE; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC CROP; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33846594862     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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