Health Effects of Aflatoxin

 

 

This section of the Paradigm Change website lists citations for more than a thousand journal articles focusing on the health effects of aflatoxin.

Aflatoxin – a mycotoxin made by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus – is especially recognized for being very highly carcinogenic and for causing other types of liver damage, but it also has a wide variety of other negative effects on human and animal health.

One especially interesting line of research done in Africa focuses on the apparent role of aflatoxin exposures in increasing the likelihood that people will contract HIV and also that those who are positive for the virus will get sick with AIDS.

To see the list of citations for each category, please click on the links below (in orange with no underlining).

 

Overview

AIDS

Cancer – Liver

Cancer – Other

Glutathione

Growth Impairment

Hematological

Immune

Infections

Intestinal

Kidneys

Liver

Mitochondria

Neurological

Oxidative Stress

Reproductive

Respiratory

Other Disease

Genetic Effects

Animal Species

Protective Agents

Milk Excretion

Synergies

Prevalence

Metabolism and Clearance

 

Links on this page are in orange (no underlining).