Safety assessment of ellagic acid, a food additive, in a subchronic toxicity study using F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1119-1124

  Tasaki, M ^a   Umemura, T ^a   Maeda, M ^a   Ishii, Y ^a   Okamura, T ^a   Inoue, T ^a   Kuroiwa, Y ^a   Hirose, M ^b   Nishikawa, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Food Safety Commission of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ellagic acid; F344 rats; Food additive; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; ELLAGIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; ELLAGIC ACID; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

RATTUS;

EID: 38649087345     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.10.043     Document Type: Article

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