Are apparent negative effects of feeding GM MON810 maize to Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, caused by confounding factors?

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-56

  Sissener, Nini H ^a   Hemre, Gro Ingunn ^a   Lall, Santosh P ^b   Sagstad, Anita ^a   Petersen, Kjell ^c   Williams, Jason ^b   Rohloff, Jens ^d   Sanden, Monica ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis maize; GM; Microarray techniques; Mycotoxin

Indexed keywords

VOMITOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FERRITIN HEAVY SUBUNIT GENE; GELSOLIN PRECURSOR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; INTESTINE; LIVER; MAIZE; METABOLITE; METALLOTHIONEIN A GENE; METALLOTHIONEIN B GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NR13 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIET; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTESTINES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SALMO SALAR; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; SALMO SALAR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960117702     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510005726     Document Type: Article

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