Absence of overt toxicity from feeding the flavonol, quercetin, to rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-1985
Abstract
The toxicity of the plant flavonol, quercetin, to rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) was investigated. Quercetin, which had been confirmed to be mutagenic in the Ames Salmonella/mammalian microsome test, was fed to trout at levels of 1 or 5% in the diet for 8 months. Survival, growth and feed conversion efficiency, selected haematological parameters and the relative weights of heart, liver and spleen were unaffected by the ingestion of quercetin, and there were no histopathological changes in any of the tissues examined. © 1985.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Food and Chemical Toxicology
Volume
23
Issue
12
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Plakas, S. M., T. C. Lee, and R. E. Wolke. "Absence of overt toxicity from feeding the flavonol, quercetin, to rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)." Food and Chemical Toxicology 23, 12 (1985). doi: 10.1016/0278-6915(85)90055-9.