Evaluation of oral subchronic toxicity of Pu-erh green tea (camellia sinensis var. assamica) extract in Sprague Dawley rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 836-844

  Wang, Di ^a   Meng, Jie ^b   Xu, Kunlong ^c   Xiao, Rong ^c   Xu, Mengjing ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Zhao, Yaowu ^a   Yao, Ping ^a   Yan, Hong ^a   Liu, Liegang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

No observed adverse effect level; Pu erh green tea extract; Sprague Dawley rats; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PLANT EXTRACT; PU ERH GREEN TEA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURVIVAL; TEA; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CALCIUM; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; LIVER; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS VAR. ASSAMICA; RATTUS;

EID: 84863984234     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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