Safety evaluation of Propionibacterium freudenreichii ET-3 culture

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-261

  Uchida, Masayuki ^a   Yoda, Nobuo ^a   Terahara, Masaki ^a   Seki, Keisuke ^a   Choi, Sharon S H ^b   Roberts, Ashley ^b  

^a MEIJI DAIRIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Cantox Health Sciences International   (Canada)

Author keywords

1,4 Dihydroxy 2 naphthoic acid; Bifidogenic growth stimulator; Genotoxicity; Mutagenicity; Propionibacterium freudenreichii; Safety; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG SAFETY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE TOXICITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII; RAT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; LUNG; MALE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXICITY TESTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETULUS GRISEUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII; RATTUS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 79958245080     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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