Results of a 90-day safety assessment study in mice fed a glucan produced by Agrobacterium sp. ZX09

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2377-2384

  Xiu, Aihui ^a   Zhan, Yibei ^a   Zhou, Mengyi ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   Wang, Shiming ^a   Jia, Aiqun ^a   Dong, Wei ^a   Cai, Chun ^a   Zhang, Jianfa ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Mice; Non toxic; Salecan; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN; GLUCOSE; SALECAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RHIZOBIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGROBACTERIUM; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCANS; MALE; MICE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL;

AGROBACTERIUM SP.; ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79960843308     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.06.050     Document Type: Article

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