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The Immune System
The immune system plays an essential role in maintaining the body’s overall health and resistance to diseases. It comprises two branches, known as the innate or antigen-nonspecific branch, and the adaptive or ...
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Pharmacological Applications of Biocompatible Carbon Nanotubes and Their Emerging Toxicology Issues
Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied for their application as diagnostic tools, chemical sensors, and vectors for drug delivery. Carbon nanotubes are of great interest becau...
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Effect of Processing on Aflatoxin
Naturally occurring toxicant contamination of foods with mycotoxins is unavoidable and unpredictable and poses a unique challenge to food safety. Aflatoxins are toxic mold metabolites produced by toxigenic str...
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U.S. Perspective on mycotoxin regulatory issues
Control programs set up by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aflatoxin, an unavoidable natural contaminant produced by specific molds that invade a number of feedstuffs and basic foods, provide an exa...
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Taurine Intake of Korean Breast-Fed Infants during Lactation
The roles of taurine in human nutrition and physiology have been intensively reviewed1, 11, 13, 21, 24. Recent interest in taurine metabolism and its nutritional requirement for humans has centered around the dis...
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Taurine Protects against Oxidant-Induced Lung Injury: Possible Mechanism(s) of Action
Ozone (O3) is one of the six major air pollutants for which National Ambient Air Quality Standards have been designated under the Clean Air Act (8). Ozone is the most prevalent photochemical oxidant and an import...
