Phytoprevention of aflatoxin production

نویسندگان

1 Medicinal Plants Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran-Qom Express Way, Opposite Imam Khomeini's shrine, Tehran - 3319118651, Iran

2 Medicinal Plants Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran-Qom Express Way, Opposite Imam Khomeini's shrine, Tehran - 3319118651, Iran

3 Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran

4 Department of Medicinal Plants, Institute for Research in Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran

5 School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

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چکیده

Background: Consumption of mycotoxic foods is associated with several cases of human poisoning, or mycotoxicosis, sometimes resulting in death. Objective: Phytopreventive inhibition of Aspergillus parasiticus growth and its aflatoxin production by the essential oils extracted from Thymus kotschyanus Boiss & Hohen and Zataria multiflora Boiss. is reported in this study. Methods: ...