Toxicity of tomato red, a popular food dye blend on male albino mice

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-57

  Sharma, Shipra ^a   Goyal, Rajendra P ^a   Chakravarty, Geetanjali ^a   Sharma, Anjali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Dye blend; Food colour; Histopathology; Mice; Tomato red

Indexed keywords

FOOD DYE; TOMATO RED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER WEIGHT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; BODY WEIGHT; COLORING AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; ORGAN SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTIS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUS;

EID: 43849089573     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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