Absence of carcinogenic and anticarcinogenic effects of annatto in the rat liver medium-term assay

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1687-1693

  Agner, A R ^a   Barbisan, L F ^a,b   Scolastici, C ^a   Salvadori, D M F ^a  

^a Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Annatto; Carcinogenesis; Chemoprevention; Comet assay; Diethylnitrosamine; Genotoxicity; GST P positive foci

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BIXIN; FOOD DYE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; N DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; NITROSAMINE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNATTO; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BIXACEAE; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; CAROTENOIDS; COMET ASSAY; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA DAMAGE; EATING; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEPATECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WEIGHT GAIN;

BIXA ORELLANA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 4043111270     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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