1. Fumonisin-containing diets decrease the metabolic activity of myenteric neurons in rats
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Miguel Machinski Junior, Cleverson Busso, Eneri Vieira de Souza Leite Mello, Fernanda Andrade Martins, Maria Raquel Marçal Natali, Fernando Carlos Sousa, Mario H. Barros, and Christiano Rodrigues Schamber
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Biology ,NADPH diaphorase ,Fumonisins ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Fumonisin ,medicine ,Animals ,Rats, Wistar ,Mycotoxin ,Myenteric plexus ,Neurons ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,General Neuroscience ,Neurotoxicity ,food and beverages ,General Medicine ,Mycotoxins ,medicine.disease ,Diet ,Rats ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,NADH Diaphorase ,Metabolic activity ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Fumonisins are naturally occurring mycotoxins that contaminate food for human and animal consumption. They have neurotoxic effects, but the mechanisms by which these toxins affect the nervous system are not fully known. In the present study, male Wistar rats were fed between 21 and 63 days of age with diets that contained fumonisins B
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- 2020