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Fast and sensitive LC-MS/MS method measuring human mycotoxin exposure using biomarkers in urine.

Huybrechts, Bart
Martins, J C.
Debongnie, Ph
Uhlig, S
Callebaut, A.
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A direct, fast and sensitive LC-MS/MS method was developed to measure biomarkers for mycotoxin exposure in human urine. In total, 32 biomarkers were quantitatively or semi-quantitatively measured in 32 urine samples of Belgian volunteers using two injections. All urine samples contained deoxynivalenol-15-glucuronide, the major detoxification metabolite of deoxynivalenol, in the ng/mL range. Also deoxynivalenol-3-glucuronide and de-epoxy-deoxynivalenol-glucuronide were present in, respectively, 90 and 25% of the samples, while deoxynivalenol was detected in 60% of the samples, in lower concentrations. Deoxynivalenol glucuronides were the major biomarkers for deoxynivalenol exposure. Ochratoxin A was detected in 70% of the samples in pg/mL. Citrinin and/or dihydrocitrinone were detected in 90% of the samples, also in concentrations of pg/mL. The presence of ochratoxin A and citrinin was confirmed by a second method using sample cleanup by immunoaffinity columns, followed by LC-MS/MS. Our data show that humans are much more exposed to citrinin than realized before and suggest further work on citrinin exposure in relation with ochratoxin A exposure, as both mycotoxins are nephrotoxic.

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2015-11-01
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Adult, Belgium, Biomarkers, Chromatography, Liquid, Citrinin, Female, Glucuronides, Humans, Male, Mycotoxins, Ochratoxins, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Trichothecenes
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