RESEARCH PAPER
Ciliostatic activity in day old chicks indicates microscopic fungi toxicity in vitro
1 | Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia |
Ann Agric Environ Med. 1997;4(1):35–36
KEYWORDS
chick tracheal ciliaciliostatic activityfilamentous fungimycotoxinschloroform-extractable metabolites
ABSTRACT
Movement of respiratory tract cilia represents one of the most important lung clearance mechanisms of human body against environmental pollution. Since many different bacteria and filamentous fungi or their toxic metabolites have been detected in the working and domestic environment, a comparison of their relative ciliostatic activity in vitro is of great interest [1, 3, 4].
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