Toxicity evaluation of fungal food colourant from <i>Thermomyces</i> sp. in albino mice
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Toxicity evaluation of fungal food colourant from <i>Thermomyces</i> sp. in albino mice
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| Creator |
Poorniammal, R
Gunasekaran, S Ariharasivakumar, G |
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Albino mice
Food colourant Oral toxicity Pigment <i>Thermomyces<i> sp. |
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This study evaluates acute and sub-acute toxicity on albino mice of yellow pigment isolated from <i>Thermomyces </i>sp. for food application to assess its safety in experimental animals. Oral feeding of <i>Thermomyces </i>sp. (0.5-5.0 g/kg body wt) to adult mice did not show any symptoms of toxicity or mortality of mice. Oral feeding of <i>Thermomyces </i>sp. at 0.25-2.0% level (w/w) for 28 days did not produce any significant changes in body weight gain of experimental mice compared to control mice. There were no significant differences in relative weight of vital organs, hematological parameters and histopathological analysis between experimental and control groups. Thus acute and sub-acute oral feeding of fungal pigment did not produce any toxic effects in male and female mice. |
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2011-08-26T04:25:23Z
2011-08-26T04:25:23Z 2011-09 |
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Article
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0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12601 |
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en_US
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<img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
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NISCAIR-CSIR, India
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JSIR Vol.70(09) [September 2011]
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