The Toxicological Impacts of the Fusarium mycotoxin, Deoxynivalenol, in Poultry Flocks with Special Reference to Immunotoxicity

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 912-925

  Awad, Wageha ^a   Ghareeb, Khaled ^a,b   Böhm, Josef ^a   Zentek, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b South Valley University   (Egypt)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Deoxynivalenol; Fusarium mycotoxin; Gut immunity; Immune responses; Poultry

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYCOTOXIN; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE; VOMITOXIN; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHICKEN; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUSARIUM; HEN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; TOXICOKINETICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CYTOKINES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUSARIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; TRICHOTHECENES;

ANIMALIA; FUSARIUM; GALLUS GALLUS; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 84877048119     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5050912     Document Type: Review

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