In vitro and in vivo safety studies of a proprietary whey extract

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1659-1665

  Dyer, Anthony R ^a   Burdock, George A ^b   Carabin, Ioana G ^b   Haas, Matthew C ^c   Boyce, John ^c   Alsaker, Richard ^d   Read, Leanna C ^a  

^a TGR BioSciences   (Australia)

^b Burdock Group   (United States)

^c WIL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Madison Toxicologic Pathologists LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Food; Lactermin ; Rat; Subchronic; WGFE; Whey growth factor extract

Indexed keywords

BETACELLULIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; LACTERMIN; LACTOFERRIN; LACTOPEROXIDASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEY GROWTH FACTOR EXTRACT;

AMES TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; WHEY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW CELLS; EATING; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; THYMIDINE KINASE;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 40849139085     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.12.029     Document Type: Article

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