Sentences with phrase «acute aflatoxin»

The rats on the low - casein diet were more vulnerable to acute aflatoxin toxicity — they were more likely to die right away from aflatoxin poisoning than the high - casein rats.

The affects observed in this study are in response to acute aflatoxin exposure.

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These revised Good Agricultural Practices will retain the earlier sections on aflatoxin risk while adding greater emphasis on managing the more acute microbial contamination risks.

At acute levels, aflatoxins can poison people or animals, killing them outright.

Under such conditions [wherein low - protein diets suppress the activity of detoxification enzymes], the parent compound AFB1 would accumulate to cause greater acute toxic effects, whereas less product (i.e., aflatoxin - DNA adducts) would accumulate to initiate carcinogenesis.

Both of these studies involved an «initiation» period that preceded and coincided with an acute dose of aflatoxin and a «promotion» period that followed.