MYCOLON – A mechanistic approach to map the interplay of mycotoxins and gut epithelium towards colorectal cancer risk Ghent University
Mycotoxins are toxic fungal secondary metabolites that contaminate a wide spectrum of foods worldwide. Mycotoxins exert a diversity of human health threats, including carcinogenesis, with the most common & pathologically-significant mycotoxins being aflatoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes (e.g. deoxynivalenol (DON)) & patulin (PAT). MYCOLON is based on preliminary data identifying DON & PAT as mycotoxins with the highest potential ...