Effects of feeding Bt MON810 maize to pigs for 110 days on peripheral immune response and digestive fate of the cry1Ab gene and truncated Bt toxin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Walsh, Maria C ^a   Buzoianu, Stefan G ^a,b   Rea, Mary C ^c,d   O'Donovan, Orla ^b   Gelencsér, Eva ^e   Ujhelyi, Gabriella ^e   Ross, R Paul ^c,d   Gardiner, Gillian E ^b   Lawlor, Peadar G ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e CENTRAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRY1AB TOXIN; DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRY1AB GENE; DNA MODIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; ILEUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STOMACH; SWINE; TH2 CELL; AGING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTION; GENE DELETION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIGESTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOTOXINS; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE DELETION; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860540837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036141     Document Type: Article

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