ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives1998
The etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy: still more questions than answers.
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- Renal Apoptosis in Male Rats Induced by Extensive Dietary Exposure to Ochratoxins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Absorptivity Is an Important Determinant in the Toxicity Difference between Aristolochic Acid I and Aristolochic Acid II.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2025Article
- A novel extraction method for three ochratoxins in human urine based on polystyrene/polyethersulfone electrospun nanofibers coated with copper nanoparticles.RSC advances · 2024Article
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- Aristolochic Acids as Persistent Soil Pollutants: Determination of Risk for Human Exposure and Nephropathy from Plant Uptake.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2018Article
- Balkan endemic nephropathy and aristolochic acid I: an investigation into the role of soil and soil organic matter contamination, as a potential natural exposure pathway.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2018Article
- Environmental toxin-induced acute kidney injury.Clinical kidney journal · 2017Review
- DNA Adducts Formed by Aristolochic Acid Are Unique Biomarkers of Exposure and Explain the Initiation Phase of Upper Urothelial Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- Tubulointerstitial nephritis: diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2017Review
- Balkan endemic nephropathy: an update on its aetiology.Archives of toxicology · 2016Review
- Reduced kidney levels of lysophosphatidic acids in rats after chronic administration of aristolochic acid: Its possible protective role in renal fibrosis.Toxicology reports · 2015Article
- Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, with special emphasis on chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology, in the north central region of Sri Lanka.Journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Evaluating weight of evidence in the mystery of Balkan endemic nephropathy.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2014Article
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- Organic compounds in water extracts of coal: links to Balkan endemic nephropathy.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2014Article
- Balkan endemic nephropathy-current status and future perspectives.Clinical kidney journal · 2013Review
- Possible health impacts of naturally occurring uptake of aristolochic acids by maize and cucumber roots: links to the etiology of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2013Article
- Case report evidence of relationships between hepatocellular carcinoma and ochratoxicosis.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) has attracted increasing attention as a possible environmental disease, and a significant amount of research from complementary scientific fields has been dedicated to its etiology. There are two actual competing theories attempting to explain the cause of this kidney disease: 1) the mycotoxin hypothesis, which considers that BEN is produced by ochratoxin A ingested intermittently in small amounts by the individuals in the endemic regions, and 2) the Pliocene lignite hypothesis, which proposes that the disease is caused by long-term exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic organic compounds leaching into the well drinking water from low rank coals underlying or proximal to the endemic settlements. We outline the current developments and future prospects in the study of BEN and differentiate possible factors and cofactors in disease etiology.
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