Safety of high doses of Propionibacterium freudenreichii ET-3 culture in healthy adult subjects

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 262-267

  Uchida, Masayuki ^a   Tsuboi, Hiroshi ^a   Takahashi Arita, Masayo ^a   Nemoto, Atsushi ^a   Seki, Keisuke ^a   Tsunoo, Hajime ^b   Martyres, Stephanie ^c   Roberts, Ashley ^c  

^a MEIJI DAIRIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Cantox Health Sciences International   (Canada)

Author keywords

1,4 Dihydroxy 2 naphthoic acid; Bifidogenic growth stimulator; Human; Propionibacterium freudenreichii; Safety

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIHYDROXY 2 NAPHTHOIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAPHTHOLS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRES; TABLETS; YOUNG ADULT;

PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII;

EID: 79958267577     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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