Fumonisin B1 contamination of home-grown corn in high-risk areas for esophageal and liver cancer in China

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-185

  Sun, Guiju ^a,b   Wang, Shaokang ^b   Hu, Xu ^c   Su, Jianjia ^a,d   Huang, Tianren ^d   Yu, Jiahua ^a,d   Tang, Lili ^a   Gao, Weimin ^a   Wang, Jia Sheng ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d Guangxi Cancer Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUMONISIN B1; FUMONISIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; LIVER CANCER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; ANIMAL; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALS; CEREALS; CHINA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUMONISINS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MYCOTOXINS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34250777290     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030601013471     Document Type: Article

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