Studies on toxicity and carcinogenicity aflatoxin in laboratory animals

The present work studied the effect of aflatoxin on toxicity and carcinogenicity on laboratory animals by the following experiments:Studies on toxicity of aflatoxin on laboratory animals. Studies on carcinogenicity of aflatoxin on laboratory animals. In the first experiment, 88 weaned rats of both sexes weight from (80-100) gm have been divided into two groups. The first group of 44 rweeks in drinking water All rats were subjected to clinical symptoms observation. Three rats from each of the first and second group of males and females were sacrificed at 5, 10 and 15 weeks respectively of the experiment. All sacrificed rats were subjecand histopathological examination.