Hepatic hyperplasia and damages induces by zearalenone Fusarium mycotoxins in BALB/c mice

CONTEXT: Zearalenone is a mycoestrogen and considered a mycotoxin. OBJECTIVE: To establish whether zearalenone produced hepatotoxicity via oral administration. METHODS: Zearalenone was orally administered at a dose of 50 mg, 100 mg and 200 mg ZEN/body weight/daily, respectively, for 14 days to three...

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Main Authors: Pronobesh Chatopadhyay, Anurag Pandey, Asshwani K. Chaurasia, Addesh Upadhyay, Sanjev Karmakar, Lokendra Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia (IBEPEGE) 2012-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-28032012000100013&lng=en&tlng=en

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