A preliminary 13-week oral toxicity study of ginger oil in male and female wistar rats

International Journal of Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 662-670

  Jeena, Kottarapat ^a   Liju, Vijayastelter B ^a   Kuttan, Ramadasan ^a  

^a AMALA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Essential oil; Oral administration; Toxicity; Zingiber officinale

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CUBEBENE; ALPHA ELEMENE; ALPHA SESQUIPHELLANDRENE; ARCUCUMENE; AROMADENDRENE; BETA BISABOLENE; BETA PANASINSENE; CAMPHENE; ELECTROLYTE; ELEMOL; FRANESOL; GAMMA ELEMENE; GERMACRENE D; GINGER EXTRACT; GINGER OIL; ISOBORNEOL; PARAFFIN; SABINENE; SILANE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; THUJOPSENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERBENONE; ZINGIBERENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GINGER; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GINGER; MALE; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 84856911883     PISSN: 10915818     EISSN: 1092874X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091581811419023     Document Type: Article

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