Long-term feeding of genetically modified corn (MON810) - Fate of cry1Ab DNA and recombinant protein during the metabolism of the dairy cow

Livestock Science

Volumn 131, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 250-259

  Guertler, Patrick ^a,c   Paul, Vijay ^a,d   Steinke, Kerstin ^a,b   Wiedemann, Steffi ^a   Preißinger, Wolfgang ^b   Albrecht, Christiane ^a,e   Spiekers, Hubert ^b   Schwarz, Frieder J ^a   Meyer, Heinrich H D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (Grub)   (Germany)

^c BAVARIAN HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON YAK   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; ELISA; Genetically modified corn; Long term feeding; MON810; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

BOS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78651449375     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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