A 13-week subchronic toxicity study of dietary administered saponin-rich and isoflavones-containing soybean extract in F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2150-2156

  Cho, Y M ^a   Imai, T ^a   Ito, Y ^a   Takami, S ^a   Hasumura, M ^a   Yamazaki, T ^a   Hirose, M ^b   Nishikawa, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Food Safety Commission of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

F344 rats; Soybean extract; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; SAPONIN; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PROSTATE DISEASE; RAT; SOYBEAN; TOXICITY TESTING; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GROWTH; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SAPONINS; SOYBEANS;

ANIMALIA; GLYCINE MAX; RATTUS;

EID: 68649110015     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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