Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2016, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (1): 66-68,72.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2016.01.014

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Study on acute toxicity and mutagenicity of Panaxnotoginseng

TANG Jiao1,2, ZHAO Min1, YANG Ying1, LI Qing1, HUANG Junming1, YANG Xingfen1   

  1. 1. Institute of Toxicology, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430;
    2. Department of Pharmacology, Guangdong Provincial Institute of Biological Products and Materia Medica, Guangzhou 510440, Guangdong, China
  • Received:2015-06-16 Revised:2015-11-18 Online:2016-01-31 Published:2016-01-31

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To access the safety of Panaxnotoginseng as a health food through assessing its acute toxicity and mutagenicity. METHODS: Oral acute toxicity test,mouse bone marrow micronucleus test,mouse sperm malformation test,Ames test were performed according to the national standard procedures for toxicological assessment of foods. RESULTS: The MTD of Panaxnotoginseng in mouse was more than 15 g/kg,the polychromatic eryrocyte micronucleus rates,sperm abnormality rates at all doses (10.00,5.00,2.50 g/kg) were not significantly different from the solvent control. In the presence or absence of S9 or not,the number of revertant colonies in six dose groups (2,8,40,200,1 000,5 000 μg/plate) did not exceed 2- fold of the spontaneous revertant colony number,nor was there a dose-response relationship,the results of Ames test was negative. CONCLUSION: Panaxnotoginseng did not show acute toxicity and mutagenicity under our study conditions.

Key words: Panaxnotoginseng, acute toxicity, mutagenicity, micronucleus test, mouse sperm malformation test, Ames test

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