*** CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION ***

RTECS NUMBER            : NM7520800
CHEMICAL NAME           : myo-Inositol
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER     : 87-89-8
LAST UPDATED            : 199709
DATA ITEMS CITED        : 4
MOLECULAR FORMULA       : C6-H12-O6
MOLECULAR WEIGHT        : 180.18
COMPOUND DESCRIPTOR     : Drug
SYNONYMS/TRADE NAMES :
   * Dambose
   * Inosital
   * Inositene
   * Inositina
   * Inositol
   * Inositol, myo-
   * i-Inositol
   * iso-Inositol
   * meso-Inositol
   * Meat sugar
   * Mesoinosit
   * Mesoinosite
   * Mesoinositol
   * Mesol
   * Mesovit
   * MI
   * Myoinosite
   * Myoinositol
   * Nucite
   * Phaseomannite
   * Phaseomannitol
   * Scyllite
 
                       *** HEALTH HAZARD DATA ***
 
                        ** ACUTE TOXICITY DATA **
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Intraperitoneal
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - rat
DOSE/DURATION           : >3 gm/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   JKXXAF Japanese Kokai Tokyo Koho Patents.  (U.S. Patent and Trademark
   Office, Foreign Patents, Washington, DC 20231)  Volume(issue)/page/year:
   #92-9328
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Intravenous
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - rat
DOSE/DURATION           : >750 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   JKXXAF Japanese Kokai Tokyo Koho Patents.  (U.S. Patent and Trademark
   Office, Foreign Patents, Washington, DC 20231)  Volume(issue)/page/year:
   #92-9328
 
TYPE OF TEST            : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE       : Oral
SPECIES OBSERVED        : Rodent - mouse
DOSE/DURATION           : 10 gm/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
   Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
   TOVEFN Toksikologicheskii Vestnik.  (18-20 Vadkovskii per.  Moscow, 101479,
   Russia) History Unknown  Volume(issue)/page/year: (2),25,1994

                          *** STATUS IN U.S. ***
 
   EPA TSCA Section 8(b) CHEMICAL INVENTORY

 
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