Ninety-day oral toxicity study of rhamsan gum, a natural food thickener produced from Sphingomonas ATCC 31961, in Crl:CD(SD)IGS rats

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 493-501

  Hagiwara, Akihiro ^a   Imai, Norio ^a   Doi, Yuko ^a   Sano, Masashi ^a   Tamano, Seiko ^a   Omoto, Toshio ^b   Asai, Iwao ^b   Yasuhara, Kazuo ^b   Hayashi, Shim Mo ^b  

^a Daiyukai Research Institute for Medical Science   (Japan)

^b SAN EI GEN F F I INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crl:CD(SD)IGS rats; Microbial polyssacharide; Natural food thickener; Rhamsan gum; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; RHAMSUM GUM; THICKENING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPHINGOMONAS; SURVIVAL; URINALYSIS;

RATTUS; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 77956814659     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.35.493     Document Type: Article

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