The safety of β-carotene from Yarrowia lipolytica

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Grenfell Lee, Daniel ^a   Zeller, Samuel ^a,c   Cardoso, Renato ^b   Pucaj, Kresimir ^b  

^a Microbia Inc   (United States)

^b Nucro Technics   (Canada)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotene; Genotoxicity; Subchronic; Toxicity; Yarrowia lipolytica

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE;

AMES TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TOXICITY TESTING; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; BASOPHIL; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRUG SAFETY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MUTAGENICITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

GENOTOXICITY; SUBCHRONIC; TOXICITY; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; Β-CAROTENE;

ANIMALS; BETA CAROTENE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; YARROWIA;

YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 84891678548     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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