Evaluation of toxicity of green tea catechins with 90-day dietary administration to F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2224-2229

  Takami, S ^a   Imai, T ^a   Hasumura, M ^a   Cho, Y M ^a   Onose, J ^a   Hirose, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

F344 rats; Green tea catechins; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CATECHIN; CHOLESTEROL; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CATECHIN; CHOLESTEROL; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TEA; TRIGLYCERIDES;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; RATTUS;

EID: 42749085279     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2008.02.023     Document Type: Article

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