Safety testing of GM-rice expressing PHA-E lectin using a new animal test design

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-377

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Alte Akademie 10   (Germany)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal study; Genetically modified rice; GMO; PHA E lectin; Safety assessment; SAFOTEST; Spiking

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; LECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD SAFETY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TOXICITY TESTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORYZA SATIVA; PHASEOLUS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANIMALIA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33846656322     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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