Ochratoxin A induces oxidative DNA damag
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Hennicke G. Kamp; Gerhard Eisenbrand; Christine Janzowski; Jetchko Kiossev; John
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The nephrotoxic/carcinogenic mycotoxin ochratoxin A (OTA) occurs as a contaminant in food and feed and may be linked to human endemic Balkan nephropathy. The mechanism of OTA-derived carcinogenicity is still under debate, since reactive metabolites of OTA and DNA adducts have not been unambiguously