Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4221-4231

  Séralini, Gilles Eric ^a   Clair, Emilie ^a   Mesnage, Robin ^a   Gress, Steeve ^a   Defarge, Nicolas ^a   Malatesta, Manuela ^b   Hennequin, Didier ^c   de Vendômois, Joël Spiroux ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting effects; Glyphosate based herbicides; GMO; NK603; Rat; Roundup

Indexed keywords

DNA; HERBICIDE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA MODIFICATION; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HERBICIDE TOLERANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; KIDNEY NECROSIS; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER NECROSIS; MAIZE; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL TIME; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NECROSIS; PITUITARY GLAND; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; ZEA MAYS;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84867230284     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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