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[Nutrition assessment of transgenic rice]
Yinghua Li1, Jianhua Piao, Xiaoping Chen
1National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
Objective:
To observe the nutrition effects between transgenic rice and non-transgenic rice.
Methods:
Wistar rats were divided into three groups according to their sex respectively: transgenic rice group, non-transgenic rice group and AIN93G normal control group. They were fed with corresponding food for 28 days. Indicator as follows: food intake, protein effective ratio, body weight, body length, blood routine test, blood biochemistry test, organ index and bone density.
Results:
In male groups, expect that liver/body ratio was higher in transgenic rice group than that in non-transgenic rice group, all other indicators had no significant difference each other. In female groups, liver/body weight ratio, blood calcium and bone density were higher in transgenic group than those in non-transgenic group. All other indicators had no significant difference between transgenic rice group and non-transgenic rice group. Body weight, bone density and blood calcium were higher and liver/body weight ratio had no significant difference in transgenic rice group than those in AIN93G group.
Conclusion:
Transgenic rice had good nutrition effects on rat development and no toxicity and adverse effects were found in transgenic rice group.
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