Toxicological evaluation of an Allium-based commercial product in a 90-day feeding study in Sprague-Dawley rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 90, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-29

  Mellado Garcia P ^a   Puerto, M ^a   Pichardo, S ^a   Llana Ruiz Cabello, M ^a   Moyano, R ^b   Blanco, A ^b   Jos, A ^a   Camean A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

90 Day oral; Allium extract; Proallium AP ; Rats; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; PROALLIUM AP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT EXTRACT;

ALLIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TOXICITY TESTING; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD PACKAGING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALLIUM; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84960086759     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.01.019     Document Type: Article

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