PROMEC Unit

Publications 2004

1. Abel S, De Kock M, Smuts CM, De Villiers C, Swanevelder S, Gelderblom WCA. Dietary modulation of fatty acid profiles and oxidative status of hepatocyte nodules: Effect of different n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratios. Lipids 2004; 39: 963-976.
2. De Castro MFPM, Shephard GS, Sewram V, Vicente E, Mendonca TA, Jordan AC. Fumonisins in corn-based foods for infant consumption. Food Addit Contam 2004: 21:  693-699.
3. Fandohan P, Gbenou JD, Gnonlonfin B, Hell K, Marasas WFO, Wingfield MJ. Effect of essential oils on the growth of Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisin contamination in corn. J Agric Food Chem 2004; 52: 6824 - 6829.
4. Gelderblom WCA, Rheeder JP, Leggott N, Stockenström S, Humphreys J, Shephard GS, Marasas WFO. Fumonisin contamination of a corn sample associated with the induction of hepatocarcinogenesis in rats - role of dietary deficiencies. Food Chem Toxicol 2004; 42: 471-479.
5. Gressel J, Hanafi A, Head G, Marasas W, Obilana B, Ochanda J, Souissi T, Tzotzos G. Major heretofore intractable biotic constraints to African food security that may be amenable to novel biotechnological solutions. Crop Prot 2004; 23: 661-689.
6. Justino GC, Santos MR, Canario S, Borges C, Florencio MH, Mira Lurdes. Plasma quercetin metabolites: structure-antioxidant activity relationships.  Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2004; 432: 109-121.
7. Lemmer ER, Vessey CJ, Gelderblom WCA, Shephard EG, Van Schalkwyk DJ, Van Wijk RA, Marasas WFO, Kirsch RE, Hall P de la M. Fumonisin B1-induced hepatocellular and cholangiocellular tumors in male Fischer 344 rats: potentiating effects of 2-acetylaminofluorene on oval cell proliferation and neoplastic development in a discontinued feeding study. Carcinogenesis 2004; 25: 1-8.
8. Marasas WFO, Riley RL, Hendricks KA, Stevens VL, Sadler TW, Gelineau-Van Waes J, Missmer SA, Cabrera J, Torres O, Gelderblom WCA, Allegood J, Martinez C, Maddox J, Miller JD, Starr L, Sullards MC, Roman AW, Voss KA, Wang E, Merrill Jr, AH. Fumonisins disrupt sphingolipid metabolism, folate transport, and neural tube development in embryo culture and in vivo: A potential risk factor for human neural tube defects among populations consuming fumonisin-contaminated maize. J Nutr 2004; 134: 711-716.
9. Marnewick JL, Batenburg W, Swart P, Joubert E, Swanevelder S, Gelderblom WCA. Ex vivo modulation of chemical-induced mutagenesis by subcellular liver fractions of rats treated with rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) tea, honeybush (Cyclopia intermedia) tea, as well as green and black (Camellia sinensis) teas. Mut Res 2004; 558: 145-154.
10. Pickard J, Vismer HF. Chapter 209. Mycoses. In: Infectious Diseases of Live Stock. 3nd Ed., Eds CAW Coetzer and RC Tustin 2004; Vol 3, Section 6, p.2095-2186.
11. Shephard GS. Mycotoxins world wide: Current issues in Africa. In Barug D, Van Egmond HP, Lopéz-Garcia R, Van Osenbruggen WA, Visconti A (eds). Meeting the Mycotoxin Hazard. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands 2004: 81-88.
12. Shephard GS, Sewram V. Determination of the mycotoxin fumonisin B1 in maize by reversed-phase thin layer of chromatography: A collaborative study. Food Addit Contam 2004; 21: 498-505.
13. Van der Westhuizen L, Gelderblom WCA, Shephard GS, Swanevelder S. Disruption of sphingolipid biosynthesis in hepatocyte nodules: selective proliferative stimulus induced by fumonisin B1. Toxicology 2004; 200: 69-75.
14. Vismer HF, Snijman PW, Marasas WFO, Van Schalkwyk DJ. Production of fumonisins by Fusarium verticillioides strains on solid and in a defined liquid medium - Effects of L-methionine and inoculum. Mycopathologia 2004; 158: 99-106.
15. Vismer HF, Pickard J. Chapter 211. Protothecosis and other algal diseases. In: Infectious Diseases of Live Stock. 3rd Ed., Eds CAW Coetzer and RC Tustin 2004. Vol 3, Section 6, p. 2140-2145.
16. Yazdanpanah H, Gheidari PE, Homami SNS, Mirkarimi SK, Zarghi A, Shephard GS, Marasas WFO, Shafaati AR, Rasekh HR. Natural occurrence of fumonisin B1 in maize and its risk in Iran. In: T. Yoshizawa (ed) New Horizon of Mycotoxicology for Assuring Food Safety, Proceedings International Symposium on Mycotoxicology (ISMYCO), Kagawa, Japan, 3-5 November 2003, Japanese Association of Mycotoxicology, Tokyo, Japan, 2004, pp.159-164.