Mycotoxins: Toxicity and Molecular Mechanisms
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 May 2025 | Viewed by 50
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, mycotoxins produced by certain filamentous fungi in various foods or grains have raised concerns across the globe due to their potent toxic effects on humans and animals. To date, there are more than 500 mycotoxins reported, including aflatoxins (AFTs), ochratoxin A (OTA), deoxynivalenol (DOX), T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, zearalenone (ZEN), fumonisins (FBs), cytochalasins, citrinin, penicillic acid, patulin, fusarin C, tenuazonic acid, and fusaric acid. Mycotoxin contaminatation is linked to various diseases like cardiovascular disease, immunological dysregulation, neurodegenerative disease, chronic liver disease, and cancer. The detection rate of mycotoxins in some feed or cereal foods may be as high as 100%. Since mycotoxin contaminatations are inevitable, how to prevent and control mycotoxin contaminatation and eliminate their toxicity has become a global focus of attention. Understanding the precise molecular mechanisms of mycotoxin toxicity is vital for its treatment or detoxification for mycotoxin diet-related diseases in humans and animals. Therefore, we organized this Special Issue.
This Special Issue aims to collect more research reports related to mycotoxin contaminatation-caused toxic effects and new treatment or detoxification strategies. We are particularly interested in the epidemiological investigation, mycotoxin detection, and combination exposure assessment of different mycotoxins or mycotoxins with other chemical hazards, such as antibiotics, plasticizers, heavy metals, etc.
Prof. Dr. Chongshan Dai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mycotoxin
- molecular mechanism
- natural products
- metabolism
- combination exposure
- mycotoxin detection
- epidemiological investigation
- omics analysis
- detoxification
- cell death
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