| Literature DB >> 12448776 |
Manuela Malatesta1, Chiara Caporaloni, Luigia Rossi, Serafina Battistelli, Marco B L Rocchi, Francesco Tonucci, Giancarlo Gazzanelli.
Abstract
No direct evidence that genetically modified (GM) food may represent a possible danger for health has been reported so far; however, the scientific literature in this field is quite poor. Therefore, we investigated the possible effects of a diet containing GM soybean on mouse exocrine pancreas by means of ultrastructural, morphometrical and immunocytochemical analyses. Our observations demonstrate that, although no structural modification occurs in pancreatic acinar cells of mice fed on GM soybean, quantitative changes of some cellular constituents take place in comparison to control animals. In particular, a diet containing significant amount of GM food seems to influence the zymogen synthesis and processing.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12448776 PMCID： PMC1570979 DOI： 10.1046/j.0021-8782.2002.00103.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Anat ISSN： 0021-8782 Impact factor: 2.610