Carcinogenic potential of alizarin and rubiadin, components of madder color, in a rat medium-term multi-organ bioassay

Cancer Science

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2261-2267

  Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Yoshida, Midori ^a   Takahashi, Miwa ^a   Fujimoto, Hitoshi ^a   Shibutani, Makoto ^a,b   Hirose, Masao ^a,c   Nishikawa, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Food Safety Commission of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIZARIN; FOOD DYE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MADDER COLOR; PLANT EXTRACT; RUBIADIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENICITY; CARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GASTROINTESTINAL DYSPLASIA; HYPERPLASIA; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUBULE; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUBIA TINCTORUS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RUBIA;

EID: 70649094154     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01342.x     Document Type: Article

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