Acute and subchronic oral toxicities of Pu-erh black tea extract in Sprague-Dawley rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 156-164

  Wang, Di ^a,b   Xu, Kunlong ^c   Zhong, Ying ^a,b   Luo, Xiao ^a,b   Xiao, Rong ^c   Hou, Yan ^c   Bao, Wei ^a,b   Yang, Wei ^a,b   Yan, Hong ^b   Yao, Ping ^a,b   Liu, Liegang ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; LD 50; NOAEL; Pu erh black tea extracts; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

BLACK TEA EXTRACT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LD 50; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUBCHRONIC TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEA; URINALYSIS;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; RATTUS;

EID: 79952696964     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.11.068     Document Type: Article

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