Safety assessment of essential oil from Minthostachys verticillata (Griseb.) Epling (peperina): 90-Days oral subchronic toxicity study in rats

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Escobar, Franco Matías ^a   Sabini, María Carola ^a   Cariddi, Laura Noelia ^a   Sabini, Liliana Inés ^a   Mañas, Fernando ^a   Cristofolini, Andrea ^a   Bagnis, Guillermo ^a   Gallucci, Mauro Nicolas ^b   Cavaglieri, Lilia Renée ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia de Santiago Del Estero CITSE INBIONATEC El Zanjón   (Argentina)

Author keywords

90 Day subchronic toxicity; Essential oil; Genotoxicity; Minthostachys verticillata

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUJONE; ASCARIDOLE; BETA BISABOLENO; BETA ELEMENE; BETA GERMACRENE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; CINEOLE; CYCLOHEXANONE DERIVATIVE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; ISOMENTHONE; LIMONENE; MENTHONE; MYRCENE; OCIMENE; PINENE; PULEGONE; SABINENE; SPATHULENOL; TERPINEOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MENTHOL; TERPENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRODISTILLATION; LAMIACEAE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MINTHOSTACHYS VERTICILLATA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL; BONE MARROW; DRUG EFFECTS; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; TOXICITY TESTING; WEIGHT GAIN; WISTAR RAT;

MINTHOSTACHYS VERTICILLATA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BONE MARROW; COMET ASSAY; FEMALE; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LAMIACEAE; LIVER; MALE; MENTHOL; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84911468893     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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