Safety assessment of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis rice T1c-19 in Sprague-Dawley rats from metabonomics and bacterial profile perspectives

IUBMB Life

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-250

  Cao, Sishuo ^a   He, Xiaoyun ^a   Xu, Wentao ^a   Luo, Yunbo ^a   Yuan, Yanfang ^a   Liu, Pengfei ^b   Cao, Bo ^b   Shi, Hui ^b   Huang, Kunlun ^a,b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

bacterial profile; GMO; metabonomics; safety assessment; T1c 19 rice

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; METABONOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC CROP; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DIET; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; MALE; METABOLOMICS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXICITY TESTS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84863393169     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.601     Document Type: Article

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