Effects of green tea catechin on embryo/fetal development in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1296-1303

  Morita, Osamu ^a   Knapp, John F ^b   Tamaki, Yasushi ^a   Stump, Donald G ^b   Moore, John S ^b   Nemec, Mark D ^b  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b WIL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Green tea catechins; Teratology; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAIR LOSS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL GROWTH; RAT; TEA; UTERUS WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATECHIN; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HYSTERECTOMY; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURVIVAL; TEA; UTERUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 67349131818     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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