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识别和用途:瓜尔豆胶是一种白色至淡黄色的自由流动粉末,无味,口感平淡。它有多种用途,包括作为保护胶体、稳定剂、增稠剂和成膜剂用于奶酪、沙拉酱、冰淇淋、汤;作为片剂制剂中的粘合剂和崩解剂;在药物果冻制剂中使用;在纳米颗粒悬浮液、乳液、乳膏、面霜、牙膏中使用;在采矿工业中作为絮凝剂、过滤剂;在污水处理中作为助凝剂。它通常以部分水解的形式用作膳食纤维。它也用于水力压裂作为凝胶剂。人类暴露和毒性:瓜尔豆胶被认为是相当无毒的。五名志愿者每天服用一克瓜尔豆粉胶囊,持续10天,没有明显的影响。富含不可吸收碳水化合物(“纤维”)如瓜尔豆胶的饮食被提倡用于治疗非胰岛素依赖型糖尿病(NIDDM)。8名患有NIDDM的成年人至少连续16周每天摄入30克瓜尔豆胶,血液学、肝功能或肾功能没有变化。血清学筛查显示脂质、蛋白质或矿物质代谢没有变化,电解质平衡也没有变化。结论是,每天摄入30克瓜尔豆胶,长期服用没有严重后果。有过敏反应导致并发症的案例。瓜尔豆胶曾导致食管阻塞。一例死亡归因于使用一种瓜尔豆胶片剂产品,该产品在食道中膨胀,间接导致并发症,导致死亡。一名男性在食用含有瓜尔豆胶的代餐“Gerlina”后几分钟内出现严重的过敏性反应:胸痛和上腹痛、突然虚弱、呼吸急促和循环衰竭。皮肤测试和放射变应原吸附测试对代餐和瓜尔豆胶、角豆胶呈阳性,显示IgE介导的机制。使用肾上腺素和皮质类固醇注射治疗有效。瓜尔豆胶在人类胚胎肺细胞(WI-38)中引起了染色体畸变。动物研究:在13周内,给每性别/种类的10只大鼠和小鼠喂食含有0、6,300、12,500、25,000、50,000或100,000 ppm瓜尔豆胶的饮食,没有观察到与化合物相关的临床体征或组织病理学效应。在给大鼠和小鼠喂食含有25,000或50,000 ppm瓜尔豆胶的饮食103周后,瓜尔豆胶并未表现出致癌性。在20周的小鼠和40周的大鼠之后,高剂量雌性的平均体重低于未处理对照组。没有观察到与化合物相关的临床体征或对生存的负面影响。给药的大鼠和小鼠的饲料消耗量低于对照组。在没有代谢激活的情况下进行测试时,瓜尔豆胶对酿酒酵母D-3具有致突变性,但对鼠伤寒沙门氏菌TA 1530或G-46则无致突变性。瓜尔豆胶不具有致畸性。在雄性和雌性大鼠在交配前13周、交配期间和整个妊娠期间自由摄取含有0、1、2、4、7.5或15%瓜尔豆胶的饲料,对胎儿发育或性别分布没有与化合物相关的影响。
IDENTIFICATION AND USE: Guar gum is a white to yellowish-white free flowing powder that is odorless and has a bland taste. It has many uses including as a protective colloid, stabilizer, thickening and film forming agent for cheese, salad dressings, ice cream, soups; as binding and disintegrating agent in tablet formulations; in pharmaceutical jelly formulations; in nanoparticle suspensions, emulsions, lotions, creams, toothpastes; in the mining industry as a flocculants, as a filtering agent; and in water treatment as a coagulant aid. It is often used as a dietary fiber in the partially hydrolyzed form. It is also used in hydraulic fracturing as a gelling agent. HUMAN EXPOSURE AND TOXICITY: Guar gum is considered fairly non-toxic. Five volunteers ingested 1 g of guar flour in a capsule per day for 10 days without any apparent effect. The use of diets rich in unabsorbable carbohydrate ("fiber") such as guar gum has been advocated for the treatment of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). 8 adults with NIDDM consumed at least 30 grams of guar gum for at least 16 weeks without any change in hematologic, hepatic, or renal function. Serologic screening revealed no change in lipid, protein or mineral metabolism, and no change in electrolyte balance. It is concluded that consumption of 30 grams of guar gum per day for prolonged periods is without serious consequences. There are cases of complications due to allergic reactions to guar gum. Guar gum was blamed in causing esophageal obstruction. A death has been attributed to the use of one guar gum tablet product, which apparently swelled in the esophagus, indirectly resulting in complications that caused the fatality. A male presented severe anaphylactic reaction: chest and epigastric pain, sudden weakness, breath shortness and circulatory collapse a few minutes after eating "Gerlina", a meal substitute which contains guar gum. Skin tests and radioallergosorbent tests were positive for the meal substitute, and for guar and carob gums with evidence of an IgE-mediated mechanism. Treatment with shots of adrenaline and corticoids was effective. . Guar gum caused chromosome aberrations in human embryonic lung cells (WI-38). ANIMAL STUDIES: No compound related clinical signs or histopathological effects were observed in rats and mice (10 per sex/per species) fed Diets containing 0, 6,300, 12,500, 25,000, 50,000, or 100,000 ppm guar gum for 13 weeks. Guar gum was not carcinogenic in rats or mice fed diets containing 25,000 or 50,000 ppm guar gum for 103 weeks. After week 20 in mice and week 40 in rats, mean body weights of high-dose females were lower than those of the untreated controls. No compound-related clinical signs or adverse effects on survival were observed. Feed consumption by dosed rats and dosed mice of either sex was lower than that of the controls. When tested without metabolic activation, guar gum was mutagenic for Saccharomyces cerevisiae D-3, but not for Salmonella typhimurium TA 1530 or G-46. Guar gum is not teratogenic. There was no compound-related effect on fetal development or sex distribution in male and female rats with 0, 1, 2, 4, 7.5 or 15% guar gum available in feed ad lib. for 13 weeks before mating, during mating and throughout gestation.
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