Pathological studies on the adverse effect of food color carmine cochineal on male albino rats [electronic resource].

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Twenty-one mature male alhino rats were divided into 3 egual groups to study the adverse effects of the natural food coloring-agent carmine cochineal. Cp. I was the control. Cps 2 & 3 were orally administrated carmine cochineal at a dose 500 mg/kg B wt. (gp.2) and 1000 mg/kg B wt. (gp. 3) dispersed in distilled water by a stomach tube 5 days a week for 45 days. At the end of the experiment, the rats were sacrificed necropsied and tissue specimens were collected from lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys, heart, testes and skin. The specimens were fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin. Five micron thick paraffin sections were prepared, stained with IJ&E and examined microscopically.

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