Abstract
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a widespread mycotoxin that naturally takes place in various human foodstuffs, such as cereals, cereal products, fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy products, dried products, wine and even the infant formula. Thus, the generation of serious harm to human health is inevitable. Among a variety of toxicological effects of OTA, nephrotoxicity is the most prominent. Until present, the review focusing on the nephrotoxicity of OTA was absent. Therefore, the advances in research of nephrotoxicity, nephrotoxicity mechanisms and toxic antagonism of OTA were reviewed in the present paper.
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful for the financial support from the District Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31460426), the Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31601577), the cooperation projects of the Science and Technology Department of Guizhou Province (No. LH[2014]7546), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (5154034), ZMKD2013-022, and cstc2014jcyjA00051.
Declaration of interest
All authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.