Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins focuses on occurrence, advances in determination, toxicology and exposure management of these bio-contaminants.

Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins includes:

• Advances in analytical techniques
• Screening tools
• High-sensitivity instrumental methods and their combinations
• Applied for single and multi-toxin determinations
• Identification of requisite agronomic factors
• Pre-harvest forecasting for strategic intervention

Contents

Overview of mycotoxins

• Mycotoxins and mycotoxicoses: A 2004 update

Fungi-substrate interaction (ecology)

• Fungal ecology and the occurrence of mycotoxins
• Effect of fungal infection and insect infestation interaction, moisture content, type of earhead and grain on mycotoxin production in field sorghum
• Relationship between the condition of home-stored peanuts and aflatoxin B1 contamination

Determination of mycotoxins

• Indirect competitive ELISA for ochratoxin A detection in coffee and molecular identification of ochratoxin A producing Aspergillus strains
• Simultaneous determination of aflatoxin, ochratoxin A and zearalenone by a new immunoaffinity column
• Underestimation of fumonisin B1 and ochratoxin A, from complex matrices using immunoaffinity columns
• Cross-reactivity of six zearalenone antibodies in a hand-held fluorescence polarisation immunoassay
• Detection of fumonisins in maize (Zea mays L.) by three analytical techniques (HPLC, TLC and ELISA)
• Analytical characterisation of degradation products of fumonisin B1 by LCMS/ MS
• Multi-mycotoxin analysis by LC-MS/MS in a single sample extract
• Determination of masked mycotoxins using HPLC–tandem mass spectrometry

Toxicology of mycotoxins

• Interaction between fumonisin B₁ and pig liver cytochromes P₄₅₀
• In vitro and in vivo effects of fumonisin B₁ on the intestine: A review
• In vivo and in vitro effects of fumonisin B1 on cytokine production: implication for the immune response to vaccination
• The presence of a DNA damaging putative mycotoxin in maize from Santa Catarina, Brazil: An area of high esophageal cancer
• Degradation of patulin in rats and humans quantified by stable isotope dilution assays: A review
• Metabolism of mycotoxins in mammalian cells: Advantages of a stable isotopic enrichment strategy

Occurrence of mycotoxins

• Study of aflatoxin exposure in a Brazilian population using an aflatoxin – albumin biomarker
• The occurrence of aflatoxin M1 in fresh cow milk retailed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Exposure to fumonisins through Kenkey – a Ghanaian fermented maize product
• Analysis of ochratoxin A in serum, urine and food consumed by inhabitants from an area with Balkan endemic nephropathy: A one month follow-up study

Management of mycotoxins

• Pre-harvest forecasting of deoxynivalenol for regulatory action in wheat grain in Uruguay using readily available weather inputs
• Identification of agronomic factors that influence the level of deoxynivalenol (DON) in wheat grown in France
• Potential bio-control of patulin producing Penicillium expansum in postharvest fruits using antagonistic yeasts
• Methyl jasmonate effect on aflatoxin B1 production by olives inoculated with A. parasiticus is concentration-dependent
• Prevention of mould growth on black olives by heat treatment
• Influence of winemaking on ochratoxin A content in red wines
• A novel approach to deactivate ochratoxin A

Phycotoxins

• Toxicology of yessotoxins and other DSP-related toxins
• Brevetoxin metabolism in shellfish associated with neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
• Electro-separation methods for the analysis of phycotoxins
• Monitoring microcystin and physicochemical parameters: Role of agricultural–aquaculture activity in the water quality
• Multiresidue LS-MS analysis of ASP and DSP toxins in shellfish: Validation and laboratory QA/QC data

Index

click here to see books of related interest

ORDER NOW Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins Advances in Determination, Toxicology and Exposure Management edited by Henry Njapau 2006 • 354 pages • $132.00 + shipping Texas residents please add 6.75 % sales tax