Effects of Chronic Ingestion of Ochratoxin A on Blood Levels and Excretion of the Mycotoxin in Sheep
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ruminants are relatively resistant to the acutely toxic effects of ochratoxin A, due to extensive degradation of ochratoxin A to its less toxic metabolite ochratoxin alpha by rumen microorganisms. However, most estimates of the degradation capacity for ochratoxin A in ruminants are based on in vitro studies. In the current study, the metabolism of ochratoxin A was investigated over a period of 29 days, feeding various doses of the mycotoxin (0, 9.5, 19.0, and 28.5 mug ochratoxin A/kg body weight) to sheep. Animals were fed diets consisting of 70% concentrates and 30% grass silage. Significant concentrations of undegraded ochratoxin A were detected in serum of sheep at all levels of ochratoxin A tested. Serum concentrations of ochratoxin A slightly accumulated with time of exposure and were linearly dependent on the administered dose of ochratoxin A. Furthermore, a constant proportion (6-8%) of the dose was excreted in the urine. The results of this study indicate that even at moderate to low levels of ochratoxin A in the diet, considerable amounts of the mycotoxin are absorbed by ruminants and may accumulate in tissues. Therefore, feeding of ochratoxin A-contaminated feedstuffs to ruminants does not seem to be a reliable means for using these feedstuffs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".