Safety of purified decolorized (low anthraquinone) whole leaf Aloe vera (L) Burm. f. juice in a 3-month drinking water toxicity study in F344 rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-31

  Shao, A ^a   Broadmeadow, A ^b   Goddard, G ^b   Bejar, E ^a   Frankos, V ^a  

^a Herbalife International America Inc   (United States)

^b HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aloin A; Anthraquinones; Decolorized aloe juice; Purified whole leaf Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f. juice; Rat; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; ANTHRAQUINONE; CALCIUM; DRINKING WATER; HEMOGLOBIN; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; UREA;

ADRENAL GLAND; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CECUM; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLON; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOLORIZATION; DIARRHEA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEART WEIGHT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANT LEAF; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRECANCER; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PURIFICATION; RAT; RELATIVE DENSITY; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINE VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALOE; ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; CECUM; COLON; COLOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TOXICITY TESTS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALOE; ALOE VERA; RATTUS;

EID: 84876303184     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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