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Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.This research confirms shotgun metabarcoding accurately identifies YYQFW components, proving its potential for authenticating complex herbal products. Combined with TLC/HPLC, it offers a regulatory approach for food‐medicine homologous ingredients OTC medicines and aids species identification in processed foods with degraded DNA. ABSTRACT OTC medicines
Yu Tian +9 more
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Cluj Veterinary Journal, 2023 This study aimed to investigate the effect of Nigella sativa (NS) seed supplementation on hematology, acid-base parameters, and serum biochemical parameters in Nubian goats fed an Aflatoxin-contaminated diet.
Mahmoud O. A. Elfaki, Nawal M. Elkhair
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Scaling-Up the Impact of Aflatoxin Research in Africa. The Role of Social Sciences
Toxins, 2018 At the interface between agriculture and nutrition, the aflatoxin contamination of food and feed touches on agriculture, health, and trade. For more than three decades now, the problem of aflatoxin has been researched in Africa.
François Stepman
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Point mutations of the P53 gene, human hepatocellular carcinoma and aflatoxins [PDF]
, 1993 The tumor suppressor p53 exerts important protective functions towards DNA-damaging agents. Its inactivation by allelic deletions or point mutations within the P53 gene as well as complex formation of wildtype p53 with cellular or viral proteins is a ...
Alexander L. Gerbes +40 more
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Immunosuppression in Chickens by Aflatoxin , [PDF]
Poultry Science, 1974 Abstract Aflatoxin, a potent natural contaminant in feedstuffs, suppressed hemagglutinin formation in chickens. The primary immune response was reduced in a dose-related fashion when aflatoxin was incorporated into the diet at levels as low as 0.625 μg. per gram.
J. P. Thaxton +2 more
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Toxins, 2016 Aflatoxins, a group of extremely hazardous compounds because of their genotoxicity and carcinogenicity to human and animals, are commonly found in many tropical and subtropical regions.
Jin Mao +6 more
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Inhibition of Aflatoxin Formation in Aspergillus Species by Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Seed Stilbenoids in the Course of Peanut− Fungus Interaction [PDF]
, 2019 Common soil fungi, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, are opportunistic pathogens that invade preharvest peanut seeds. These fungi often produce carcinogenic aflatoxins that pose a threat to human and animal health through food chains and ...
Arias, Renee +4 more
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Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the genotoxic effects of food contaminants exposure in human neuroblastoma SH‐SY5Y cells using the micronucleus (MN) assay and Ames test. Acrylamide (AA), penitrem A (PEN A), and 3‐acetyldeoxynivalenol (3‐ADON) were tested both individually and in combination.
Luna Bridgeman +4 more
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Aflatoxin Exposure During Pregnancy, Maternal Anemia, and Adverse Birth Outcomes
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017 Pregnant women and their developing fetuses are vulnerable to multiple environmental insults, including exposure to aflatoxin, a mycotoxin that may contaminate as much as 25% of the world food supply.
Laura E Smith +4 more
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Strategies for estimating human exposure to mycotoxins via food [PDF]
, 2016 In this review, five strategies to estimate mycotoxin exposure of a (sub-) population via food, including data collection, are discussed with the aim to identify the added values and limitations of each strategy for risk assessment of these chemicals ...
Boon, PE +6 more
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