Chemistry of Mycotoxins

The activity of mycotoxins ranges from weak and/or typically positive effects, like medicament activity to sturdy agent (e. g. aflatoxins, patulin), malignant neoplastic disease (e. g. aflatoxins), agent, toxin (e. g. ochratoxins), toxic (e. g. fumonisins, citrinin), toxic, and immunotoxic (e. g. ochratoxins, diketopiperazines) activity. it's estimated that spill 1,000 mycotoxins are isolated and characterised thus far, however this range can increase over successive few decades due the provision of a lot of specialised analytical tools and therefore the increasing range of fungi being isolated.