Sunset yellow FCF, a permitted food dye, alters functional responses of splenocytes at non-cytotoxic dose

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-204

  Yadav, Ashish ^a,b   Kumar, Arvind ^b   Tripathi, Anurag ^a   Das, Mukul ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immunotoxicity; Lymphoproliferation; Splenocytes; Sunset Yellow FCF; Surface receptors

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CONCANAVALIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; SUNSET YELLOW; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84873256373     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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