PROMEC Unit

Publications 2010

1. Burger H-M, Lombard MJ, Shephard GS, Rheeder JP, Van der Westhuizen L, Gelderblom WCA (2010). Dietary fumonisin exposure in a rural population of South Africa. Food Chem Toxicol 48: 2103-2108. (Impact factor 2.321)
2. Hon GM, Hassan MS, Janse van Rensburg S, Abel S, Van Jaarsveld P, Erasmus RT, Matsha T. (2009) Red blood cell membrane fluidity in the aetiology of Multiple Sclerosis. Journal of Membrane Biology 232: 25-34. (Impact factor 2.320)
3. Hon, G.M., Hassan, M.S., Van Rensburg, S.J., Abel, S., Erasmus, R.T. & Matsha, T. (2009) Membrane saturated fatty acids and disease progression in Multiple Sclerosis patients. Metab Brain Dis 24: 561-568. (Impact factor 1.825)
4. Katerere DR, Luseba D.(Eds) Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine:  Herbal medicines for Animal Health (2010).  CRC Press. (Not Indexed. Book)
5. Moses LM, Marasas WFO, Vismer HF, De Vos L, Rheeder JP, Proctor RH, Wingfield BD. Molecular characterization of Fusarium globosum strains from South African maize and Japanese wheat. Mycopathologia 170: 237-249. (Impact factor 1.728)
6. Ndube N, van der Westhuizen L, Shephard GS. (2009) Determination of fumonisins in maize by HPLC with ultraviolet detection of o-phthaldialdehyde derivatives. Mycotoxin Research 25: 225-228. (Not indexed).
7. Shephard GS (2009). Aflatoxin analysis at the beginning of the 21st century. Anal Bioanal Chem 395: 1215-1224. (Impact factor 2.867)
8. Shephard GS (2010). General Referee Reports: Methods Committee on Natural Toxins and Allergens - Mycotoxins. J AOAC Int 93: 3B-5B. (Impact factor 1.122)
9. Shephard GS, Berthiller F, Dorner J, Krska R, Lombaert GA, Malone B, Maragos C, Sabino M, Solfrizzo M, Trucksess MW, Van Egmond HP, Whitaker TB (2010). Developments in mycotoxin analysis: An update for 2008 - 2009. World Mycotoxin J 3: 3-23. (Not indexed).
10. Shephard GS, Van der Westhuizen L, Katerere DR, Herbst M, Pineiro M (2010). Preliminary exposure assessment of deoxynivalenol and patulin in South Africa. Mycotoxin Research 26: 181-185. (Not indexed)
11. Somdyala NIM, Bradshaw D, Gelderblom WCA, Parkin DM (2010). Cancer incidence in a rural population of South Africa, 1998-2002. Int J Cancer 127. 2420-2429. (Impact factor 4.734)
12. Steyn PS, Gelderblom WCA, Shephard GS, Van Heerden FR (2009). Mycotoxins with special focus on aflatoxins, ochratoxins and fumonisins. In General and Applied Toxicology, Third Edition. Ballantyne B, Marrs T, Syversen T (Eds). Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp 3467-3527. (Not indexed. Book chapter).
13. Thembo KM, Vismer HF, Nyazema NZ, Gelderblom WCA, Katerere DR (2010).  Antifungal activity of four weedy plant extracts against selected mycotoxigenic fungi. J Appl Microbiol 109: 1479-1486. (Impact factor 2.098)
14. Van der Merwe JD, Joubert E, Manley M, de Beer D, Malherbe CJ, Gelderblom WCA. (2010) In vitro hepatic biotransformation of aspalathin and nothofagin, dihydrochalcones of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis), and assessment of metabolite antioxidant activity. J Agric Food Chem. 58: 2214-2220. (Impact factor 2.562)
15. Van der Westhuizen L, Shephard GS, Rheeder JP, Burger H.-M (2010). Individual fumonisin exposure and sphingoid base levels in rural populations consuming maize in South Africa. Food Chem Toxicol 48: 1698-1703. (Impact factor 2.321)
16. Van der Westhuizen L, Shephard GS, Burger HM, Rheeder JP, Gelderblom WCA, Wild CP, Gong YY. (2010) Simple intervention method to reduce fumonisin exposure in a subsistence maize-farming community in South AfricaFood Addit Contam. 27: 1582–1588. (Impact factor 2.131)

Manuscripts In press

1. Bulder AS, Wolterink G, Slob W, Walker R, DiNovi M, LeBlanc J-C, Shephard GS, Kpodo KA, Resnik S. Deoxynivalenol. In, WHO Food Additives Series, FAO Food and Nutrition Paper, Prepared by the 72nd Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), WHO, Geneva, 2010, pp (In press). (Not indexed. Book chapter)
2. Gelderblom WCA, Marasas WFO. Controversies in fumonisin mycotoxicology and risk assessment. Human and Experimental Toxicology (In Press, 2010)
3. Hon GM, Hassan MS, Janse van Rensburg S, Abel S, Erasmus RT, Matsha T. (2010). Monounsaturated fatty acids in blood cell membranes from patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Metabolic Brain Disease, Submitted 25th March 2009.
4. Shephard GS. State-of-the-art chromatographic separations and determination methods and their applications. In: S. De Saeger (ed) Determining Mycotoxins and Mycotoxigenic Fungi in Food and Feed, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2010 (In press). (Not indexed. Book chapter)
5. Shephard GS. Determination of mycotoxins in maize. In: J. Leslie and A. Logrieco (eds) Mycotoxin reduction in grain chains: A practical guide. John Wiley and Sons. (In press). (Not indexed. Book chapter)
6. Shephard GS. Foreword to Special Issue: Human Health Issues of Fusarium Mycotoxins other than Fumonisins. World Mycotoxin J (In press). (Not indexed)
7. Shephard GS, Berthiller F, Burdaspal P, Crews C, Jonker MA, Krska R, MacDonald S, Malone B, Maragos C, Sabino M, Solfrizzo M, Van Egmond HP, Whitaker TB. Developments in mycotoxin analysis: an update for 2009 - 2010. World Mycotoxin J (In press). (Not indexed).
8. Sissing L, Marnewick J, de Kock M, Swanevelder S, Joubert E, Gelderblom W. Effects of South African herbal teas, rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) and honeybush (Cyclopia intermedia) on the growth and development of oesophageal cancer in rats. Nutrition and Cancer.
9. Kenyon C, Lubbe D, Khoury B, Vismer HF, Hoffmann R, Mendelson M. Pansinusitis in an HIV-infected patient due to Scedosporium apiospermum (Pseudallescheria boydii complex) S Afr J Epidemiol Infect (In press).

Lay publications

1. Gelderblom WCA, Rooibos health and quality research update.  News/Nuus.  South African Rooibos Council News. No 1 March 2010.
2. Joubert E and Gelderblom WCA. Aspalathin – the key to what make rooibos unique. South African Rooibos Council News, 2, October 2010.

Theses Submitted

1. Ms L van der Westhuizen (PhD) Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University Stellenbosch. Thesis title: Fumonisin exposure biomarkers in humans consuming maize staple diets (Dr GS Shephard: Promoter)