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1: Fitoterapia. 2004 Dec;75(7-8):801-4.Click here to read Links

Constituents of aromatic plants: carvacrol.

De Vincenzi M, Stammati A, De Vincenzi A, Silano M.

Department of Metabolism and Pathological Biochemistry, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. mbpsegr@iss.it

Carvacrol is a component of numerous aromatic plants. Up to now, no toxicological data were available. Carvacrol show a weak activity in the mutagenicity studies. Moreover, in the metabolism study, carvacrol has shown to be excreted with urine after 24 h in large quantities or unchanged or as glucoronide and sulphate conjugates. The available data do not allow the assessment of the NOEL. Further toxicological studies are needed.

PMID: 15567271 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]