title: Filamentous microfungi in raw flax and cotton for textile industry and their ciliostatic activity on tracheal organ cultures in vitro.
abstract: In a three-year experiment we studied mycobiota of 24 samples of flax and 45 samples of cotton processed in Slovak textile factories. We isolated 12.2 x 10(6) (on average) cfu of microfungi per 1 g of flax samples and 3.3 x 10(5) (on average) cfu of micromycetes per 1 g of cotton samples. We also studied the ciliostatic activity of metabolites of isolated filamentous fungi on tracheal cultures of 1-day-old chicks in vitro. Twenty-nine percent of 116 investigated chloroform extracts of metabolites of microfungi isolated from flax samples stopped the cilia movement and 25% of 195 had ciliostatic activity during 72 h of experiment.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Piecková
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jesenská
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D002923:Cilia / Q000187:drug effects*; D046508:Culture Techniques; D005658:Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D003368:Gossypium / Q000382:microbiology*; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D018154:Slovakia; D013784:Textiles; D014132:Trachea / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D009183:Mycotoxins