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Toxins, Volume 15, Issue 4

April 2023 - 69 articles

Cover Story: The West African carpet viper (Echis ocellatus) was used in this study as a representative of medically significant Sub-Saharan African viperids. It is one of the species that exhibited a high level of proteolytic activity towards extracellular-matrix-mimicking polymers. Three toxins from the venom, all SVMPs (P-II and P-III), were identified as the active compounds. Overall, viperid venoms were significantly more active than elapid venoms, with E. ocellatus being the least active of the tested viperids. View this paper
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Articles (69)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,591 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2023

Ochratoxin A (OTA), as a common mycotoxin, has seriously harmful effects on agricultural products, livestock and humans. There are reports on the regulation of SakA in the MAPK pathway, which regulates the production of mycotoxins. However, the role...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,638 Views
17 Pages

Mycotoxins in Rice Correlate with Other Contaminants? A Pilot Study of the Portuguese Scenario and Human Risk Assessment

  • Liliana J. G. Silva,
  • André M. P. T. Pereira,
  • Sofia Duarte,
  • Inês Pedro,
  • Catarina Perdigão,
  • Alexandra Silva,
  • Celeste M. Lino,
  • Anabela Almeida and
  • Angelina Pena

17 April 2023

Rice is the second most important cereal crop and is vital for the diet of billions of people. However, its consumption can increase human exposure to chemical contaminants, namely mycotoxins and metalloids. Our goal was to evaluate the occurrence an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,768 Views
11 Pages

The Effect of Experimental Protocol on the Toxicity of Saxitoxin in Mice

  • Sarah C. Finch,
  • Michael J. Boundy,
  • Nicola G. Webb and
  • D. Tim Harwood

17 April 2023

Regulatory limits for toxins in shellfish are required to ensure the health of consumers. However, these limits also impact the profitability of shellfish industries making it critical that they are fit for purpose. Since human toxicity data is rarel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,229 Views
24 Pages

17 April 2023

The effects of global warming are not limited to rising global temperatures and have set in motion a complex chain of events contributing to climate change. A consequence of global warming and the resultant climate change is the rise in cyanobacteria...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,741 Views
12 Pages

Treating Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Patients—When Intravesical Botox Injection or Urethral Botox Injection Are Indicated

  • Po-Cheng Chen,
  • Kau-Han Lee,
  • Wei-Chia Lee,
  • Ting-Chun Yeh,
  • Yuh-Chen Kuo,
  • Bing-Juin Chiang,
  • Chun-Hou Liao,
  • En Meng,
  • Yao-Lin Kao and
  • Yung-Chin Lee
  • + 1 author

17 April 2023

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), such as urgency, urinary incontinence, and/or difficulty voiding, hamper the quality of life (QoL) of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). If not managed adequately, urological complications, such as urinary tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,305 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum, Grown under Different N:P Ratios, on the Marine Copepod Acartia tonsa

  • Epaminondas D. Christou,
  • Ioanna Varkitzi,
  • Isabel Maneiro,
  • Soultana Zervoudaki and
  • Kalliopi Pagou

16 April 2023

HABs pose a threat to coastal ecosystems, the economic sector and human health, and are expanding globally. However, their influence on copepods, a major connector between primary producers and upper trophic levels, remains essentially unknown. Micro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,798 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2023

Deoxynivalenol (DON), one of the main mycotoxins with enteric toxicity, genetic toxicity, and immunotoxicity, and is widely found in corn, barley, wheat, and rye. In order to achieve effective detoxification of DON, the least toxic 3-epi-DON (1/357th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,029 Views
15 Pages

Mycotoxins Exposure of Lactating Women and Its Relationship with Dietary and Pre/Post-Harvest Practices in Rural Ethiopia

  • Addisalem Mesfin,
  • Carl Lachat,
  • Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus,
  • Meselech Roro,
  • Kokeb Tesfamariam,
  • Tefera Belachew,
  • Marthe De Boevre and
  • Sarah De Saeger

16 April 2023

Mycotoxins can be transferred to breast milk during lactation. Hence, the presence of multiple mycotoxins (aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, and M1, alpha and beta zearalanol, deoxynivalenol, fumonisins B1, B2, B3, and hydrolyzed B1, nivalenol, ochratoxin A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,906 Views
12 Pages

Quantitative and Qualitative Pain Evaluation in Response to OnabotulinumtoxinA for Chronic Migraine: An Observational Real-Life Study

  • Claudia Altamura,
  • Nicoletta Brunelli,
  • Giovanna Viticchi,
  • Sergio Salvemini,
  • Gianluca Cecchi,
  • Marilena Marcosano,
  • Luisa Fofi,
  • Mauro Silvestrini and
  • Fabrizio Vernieri

15 April 2023

(1) Background: Randomized controlled trials and real-life studies demonstrated the efficacy of OnabotulinumtoxinA (OBT-A) for CM prevention. However, no studies specifically addressed its effect on pain’s quantitative intensity and qualitative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,379 Views
13 Pages

Protective Effects of Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) against the Jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai Envenoming

  • Jie Li,
  • Qianqian Wang,
  • Shuaijun Zou,
  • Juxingsi Song,
  • Peipei Zhang,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Yichao Huang,
  • Qian He and
  • Liming Zhang

14 April 2023

Jellyfish stings are the most common marine animal injuries worldwide, with approximately 150 million envenomation cases annually, and the victims may suffer from severe pain, itching, swelling, inflammation, arrhythmias, cardiac failure, or even dea...

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