A 90-day oral toxicity study of purple corn color, a natural food colorant, in F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 774-780

  Nabae, Kyoko ^a,b   Hayashi, Shim mo ^c   Kawabe, Mayumi ^a   Ichihara, Toshio ^a,b   Hagiwara, Akihiro ^a   Tamano, Seiko ^a   Tsushima, Yoko ^c   Uchida, Koji ^c   Koda, Takatoshi ^c   Nakamura, Mikio ^c   Ogawa, Kumiko ^b   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a Daiyukai Research Institute for Medical Science   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c SAN EI GEN F F I INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; F344 rats; Natural food colorant; Purple corn color; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FOOD DYE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PURPLE CORN COLOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FECES; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; SEX; SMALL INTESTINE; STAINING; STOMACH; TOXICITY; URINE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOCYANINS; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SAFETY;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 37349006154     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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