28-Day oral (gavage) toxicity studies of green tea catechins prepared for beverages in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 978-989

  Chengelis, Christopher P ^a   Kirkpatrick, Jeannie B ^a   Regan, Karen S ^a   Radovsky, Ann E ^a   Beck, Melissa J ^a   Morita, Osamu ^b   Tamaki, Yasushi ^b   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a WIL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional observational battery; Green tea catechins; Green tea extract; Rat; Systemic toxicity

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; GREEN TEA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; EPIMERIZATION; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEAT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOCOMOTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BEVERAGES; CATECHIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 38649125579     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.10.027     Document Type: Article

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