Ninety-day oral toxicity studies on two genetically modified maize MON810 varieties in Wistar Han RCC rats (EU 7th Framework Programme project GRACE)

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2289-2314

  Zeljenková, Dagmar ^a   Ambrušová, Katarína ^a   Bartušová, Mária ^a   Kebis, Anton ^a   Kovrižnych, Jevgenij ^a   Krivošíková, Zora ^a   Kuricová, Miroslava ^a   Líšková, Aurélia ^a   Rollerová, Eva ^a   Spustová, Viera ^a   Szabová, Elena ^a   Tulinská, Jana ^a   Wimmerová, Soňa ^a   Levkut, Mikuláš ^b   Révajová, Viera ^b   Ševčíková, Zuzana ^b   Schmidt, Kerstin ^c   Schmidtke, Jörg ^c   La Paz, Jose Luis ^d   Corujo, Maria ^d   Pla, Maria ^e   Kleter, Gijs A ^f   Kok, Esther J ^f   Sharbati, Jutta ^g   Hanisch, Carlos ^g   Einspanier, Ralf ^g   Adel Patient, Karine ^h   Wal, Jean Michel ^h   Spök, Armin ⁱ   Pöting, Annette ^j   Kohl, Christian ^k   Wilhelm, Ralf ^k   Schiemann, Joachim ^k   Steinberg, Pablo ^l   more..

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b TOPALAB   (Slovakia)

^c BIOMATH GMBH   (Germany)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h CEA SACLAY   (France)

ⁱ Inter University Research Centre for Technology Work and Culture   (Austria)

^j FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^k INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Food Feed Guidance Document of the EFSA Scientific Committee (2011); Genetically modified maize MON810; GRACE; Rat feeding trial; Subchronic oral toxicity study

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; MALTOSE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RAFFINOSE; SODIUM; SUCROSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADRENAL GLAND; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEEDING; FEMALE; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY; LACRIMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE; MAIZE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PANCREAS; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC CROP; UTERUS; WISTAR HANNOVER RAT; ANIMAL; DIET; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; INBRED RAT STRAIN; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN SIZE; PRODUCT SAFETY; STANDARDS; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84912573850     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-014-1374-8     Document Type: Article

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