CYANOTOXINS AND FOOD CONTAMINATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: REVIEW OF THEIR TYPES, TOXICITY, ANALYSIS, OCCURRENCE AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES

Cyanotoxins and Food Contamination in Developing Countries: Review of Their Types, Toxicity, Analysis, Occurrence and Mitigation Strategies

Cyanotoxins have gained global public interest due to their potential to bioaccumulate in food, which threatens human health.Bloom formation is usually enhanced under Mediterranean, subtropical and tropical climates which are the dominant climate types in developing countries.In this context, we present an up-to-date overview of cyanotoxins (types,

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Risk assessment of the laboratory host range and a molecular characterisation determining the field host range of Lixus aemulus, for the biological control of Chromolaena odorata in South Africa

Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) is a sprawling shrub native to the Americas, and a destructive invader of much of the humid tropics and subtropics of the Old World.Opportunistic native-range exploration in 1995 identified a stem-boring weevil, Lixus aemulus, as a promising biological control candidate agent.Host-specificity testing wa

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Long-lived neutral fermions at the DUNE near detector

Abstract At the Deep pixar ball keychain Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a proton beam hits a fixed target leading to large production rates of mesons.These mesons can decay and potentially provide a source of long-lived neutral fermions.Examples of such long-lived fermions are heavy neutral leptons which can mix with the standard-model act

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Characterization of B cells in lupus erythematosus skin biopsies in the context of different immune cell infiltration patterns

Cutaneous lesions in lupus erythematosus (LE) subtypes are heterogenous.In line with the heterogeneity of the clinical presentation, the underlying lesional inflammation in LE skin samples is defined by different immune cell infiltrates.Pathophysiologically, lesional mug washer inflammation is driven by autoreactive cytotoxic T cells, targeting ker

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