Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the
presence of aflatoxins in food. The risk assessment was confined to aflatoxin B1 (AFB 1) …

Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA to update their 2006 opinion on ochratoxin
A (OTA) in food. OTA is produced by fungi of the genus Aspergillus and Penicillium and …

Updates on the effect of mycotoxins on male reproductive efficiency in mammals

D El. Khoury, S Fayjaloun, M Nassar, J Sahakian… - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mycotoxins are ubiquitous and unavoidable harmful fungal products with the ability to cause
disease in both animals and humans, and are found in almost all types of foods, with a …

Effect of environmental contamination on female and male gametes–A lesson from bovines

Z Roth, A Komsky-Elbaz, D Kalo - Animal Reproduction, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) and foodborne contaminants are environmental
pollutants that are considered reproductive toxicants due to their deleterious effects on …

Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food

EC Panel, D Schrenk, M Bignami, L Bodin, JK Chipman… - 2020 - digital.csic.es
EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the
presence of aflatoxins in food. The risk assessment was confined to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) …

Aflatoxin B1 disrupts the androgen biosynthetic pathway in rat Leydig cells

IA Adedara, MK Nanjappa, EO Farombi… - Food and Chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study investigated if Aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1), a potent and naturally occurring
mycotoxin, interferes with the steroidogenic pathway in rat Leydig cells. Testicular Leydig …

Expression profiling identifies Sertoli and Leydig cell genes as Fsh targets in adult zebrafish testis

D Crespo, LHC Assis, T Furmanek, J Bogerd… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Spermatogonial stem cells are quiescent, undergo self-renewal or differentiating divisions,
thereby forming the cellular basis of spermatogenesis. This cellular development is …

Effect of aflatoxin B1 on bovine spermatozoa's proteome and embryo's transcriptome

A Komsky-Elbaz, D Kalo, Z Roth - Reproduction, 2020 - rep.bioscientifica.com
This study aims to evaluate the deleterious effect of the mycotoxin aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on
bull spermatozoa and the carryver effect on the developing embryo. Proteomic analysis of …

Small intestinal growth measures are correlated with feed efficiency in market weight cattle, despite minimal effects of maternal nutrition during early to midgestation

AM Meyer, BW Hess, SI Paisley, M Du… - Journal of Animal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We hypothesized that gestational nutrition would affect calf feed efficiency and small
intestinal biology, which would be correlated with feed efficiency. Multiparous beef cows (n …

New evidence for deleterious effects of environmental contaminants on the male gamete

A Komsky-Elbaz, D Kalo, Z Roth - Animal Reproduction Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The decreasing trend in human and domestic animal fertility in recent decades has resulted
in the question of whether reduced sperm quality is associated with changes in global …