IOM REPORT Damp Indoor Spaces and Health --Excerpts

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Page 67 Fungi produce an enormous array of potentially allergenic

compounds: each fungus produces many allergens of different potencies.

Page 160 Neurotoxic mycotoxins tend to fall into three general

classes: tremorgenic toxins, paralytic toxins, and toxins that

interfere with neurotransmitters or receptors either centrally or at

the target organ. Many of the toxins are very potent and have

immediate effects on animals exposed to a single dose by various routes.

Page 161 Tremorgenic toxins are produced predominantly by Aspergillus

and Penicillium species... The penitremtype of mycotoxins produces a

neurotoxic syndrome in animals that involves sustained tremors, limb

weakness, ataxia, and convulsions.... Tremorgenic toxins generally

initiate measurable effects in experimental animals within minutes of

exposure. Norris et al. (1980) found that penitrem A (produced

primarily by P. crustosum) increased spontaneous release of the

endogenous neurotransmitters glutamate, GABA and aspartate.....

GABA A supplement you can by to help you sleep. What GHB influences,

you know the date-rape drug! No wonder work made me tired it says

right here in their report!!

Page 162 Aspergillus clavatus is toxic to sheep and cattle in

pastures; it produces a highly lethal mycotoxicosis that involves

neural degeneration and necrosis of the midbrain, medulla, and ventral

horns of the spinal cord............ Penicillium species also produce

neurotoxins that induce paralysis. Cireoviridin, produced by P.citreo-

viride and A. terreus. and verrucosidin produced by P. verruculosum

var. cyclopium are examples of such toxins..... Those toxins produce a

progressive, ascending paralysis and are thought to act at the level of

interneurons and motor neurons of the spinal cord and motor nerve cells

of the medulla........The tremorgenic and nontremorgenic mycotoxins

from Aspergillus and Penicillium work at a different functional level

of the nervous system from mycotoxins that have more widespread targets

for toxicity or work by inhibiting basic cellular functions, such as

protein synthesis.

Ohh, I could go on and on and that is just on a few pages from the IOM

report that is always quoted as saying Mold only causes respiratory

symptoms and asthma. There is so much more on just those pages but I

can't cut and paste it. This will prove handy in various lawsuits!!

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If and when anybody supplies information, either media stories or

research, please provide a link, so others can go and read the rest

of the info. Not that I need it, I've read this several years ago

but there are many on this board that may not have it.

Thank you,

KC

> Page 67 Fungi produce an enormous array of potentially allergenic

> compounds: each fungus produces many allergens of different

potencies.

>

> Page 160 Neurotoxic mycotoxins tend to fall into three general

> classes: tremorgenic toxins, paralytic toxins, and toxins that

> interfere with neurotransmitters or receptors either centrally or

at

> the target organ. Many of the toxins are very potent and have

> immediate effects on animals exposed to a single dose by various

routes.

>

> Page 161 Tremorgenic toxins are produced predominantly by

Aspergillus

> and Penicillium species... The penitremtype of mycotoxins

produces a

> neurotoxic syndrome in animals that involves sustained tremors,

limb

> weakness, ataxia, and convulsions.... Tremorgenic toxins

generally

> initiate measurable effects in experimental animals within minutes

of

> exposure. Norris et al. (1980) found that penitrem A (produced

> primarily by P. crustosum) increased spontaneous release of the

> endogenous neurotransmitters glutamate, GABA and aspartate.....

>

> GABA A supplement you can by to help you sleep. What GHB

influences,

> you know the date-rape drug! No wonder work made me tired it says

> right here in their report!!

>

> Page 162 Aspergillus clavatus is toxic to sheep and cattle in

> pastures; it produces a highly lethal mycotoxicosis that involves

> neural degeneration and necrosis of the midbrain, medulla, and

ventral

> horns of the spinal cord............ Penicillium species also

produce

> neurotoxins that induce paralysis. Cireoviridin, produced by

P.citreo-

> viride and A. terreus. and verrucosidin produced by P.

verruculosum

> var. cyclopium are examples of such toxins..... Those toxins

produce a

> progressive, ascending paralysis and are thought to act at the

level of

> interneurons and motor neurons of the spinal cord and motor nerve

cells

> of the medulla........The tremorgenic and nontremorgenic

mycotoxins

> from Aspergillus and Penicillium work at a different functional

level

> of the nervous system from mycotoxins that have more widespread

targets

> for toxicity or work by inhibiting basic cellular functions, such

as

> protein synthesis.

>

> Ohh, I could go on and on and that is just on a few pages from the

IOM

> report that is always quoted as saying Mold only causes

respiratory

> symptoms and asthma. There is so much more on just those pages

but I

> can't cut and paste it. This will prove handy in various

lawsuits!!