Food Safety: Mycotoxins - Occurrence and Toxic Effects

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition

Volumn 2-4, Issue , 2012, Pages 337-341

  Groopman, J D ^a   Kensler, T W ^b   Wu, F ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; DNA adducts; Esophageal cancer; Fumonisins; Human liver cancer; Immunotoxicity; Kidney disease; Mycotoxins; Neural tube defects; Ochratoxins; Trichothecenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904108481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-375083-9.00122-7     Document Type: Chapter

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