Toxicological evaluation of pomegranate seed oil

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1085-1092

  Meerts, I A T M ^a   Verspeek Rip, C M ^a   Buskens, C A F ^a   Keizer, H G ^b   Bassaganya Riera, J ^c   Jouni, Z E ^d   van Huygevoort, A H B M ^a   van Otterdijk, F M ^a   van de Waart, E J ^a  

^a Notox BV   (Netherlands)

^b Lipid Nutrition BV   (Netherlands)

^c Nutrition Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^d Mead Johnson Nutritionals   (United States)

Author keywords

28 day toxicity; Acute oral toxicity; Mutagenicity; Pomegranate seed oil

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTIC ACID; FATTY ACID; LIVER ENZYME; POMEGRANATE SEED OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADOLESCENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMES TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG CARCINOGENICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SAFETY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POMEGRANATE; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TOXICITY TESTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DIET; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT OILS; PUNICACEAE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEEDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

LYTHRACEAE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67349102597     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.01.031     Document Type: Article

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