Fumonisins as a possible contributory risk factor for primary liver cancer: A 3-year study of corn harvested in Haimen, China, by HPLC and ELISA

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1143-1150

  Ueno, Y ^a   Iijima, K ^a   Wang, S D ^a   Sugiura, Y ^a   Sekijima, M ^b   Tanaka, T ^c   Chen, C ^d   Yu, S Z ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; FUMONISIN; MYCOTOXIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOMITOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CORN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUOROMETRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; RISK FACTOR;

AFLATOXINS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUMONISINS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MYCOTOXINS; RISK FACTORS; TRICHOTHECENES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031464955     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00113-0     Document Type: Article

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