Repeated-doses and reproductive toxicity studies of the monoterpene 1,8-cineole (eucalyptol) in Wistar rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 97, Issue , 2016, Pages 297-306

  Caldas, Germana Freire Rocha ^a   Limeira, Mayara Marília Ferreira ^a   Araújo, Alice Valença ^a   Albuquerque, Giwellington Silva ^a   Silva Neto, Jacinto da Costa ^a   Silva, Teresinha Gonçalves da ^a   Costa Silva, João Henrique ^a   Menezes, Irwin Rose Alencar de ^b   Costa, José Galberto Martins da ^b   Wanderley, Almir Gonçalves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b REGIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CARIRI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

1,8 Cineole; Monoterpene; Repeated dose toxicity; Reproductive toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CINEOLE; UREA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MONOTERPENES; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84988660578     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.09.020     Document Type: Article

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