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2025
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2023

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26322
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2536
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Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2010 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in agricultural and biological sciences, as well as medicine.

Their subfields of expertise include molecular biology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, food science, plant science, and pharmacology. Their work addresses various topics such as carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, plant toxicity and pharmacological properties, gut microbiota and health, drug-induced hepatotoxicity and protection, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, and pesticide exposure and toxicity.

Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Archives of Toxicology
  • Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • Toxicology Letters
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • Toxicology in Vitro

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens are:

  • Mode of action-based risk assessment of genotoxic carcinogens, 2020, Archives of Toxicology
  • Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food and phytomedicine: Occurrence, exposure, toxicity, mechanisms, and risk assessment - A review, 2020, Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • Organophosphate and carbamate pesticide residues and accompanying risks in commonly consumed vegetables in Kenya, 2020, Food Additives and Contaminants Part B
  • The role of endogenous versus exogenous sources in the exposome of putative genotoxins and consequences for risk assessment, 2022, Archives of Toxicology
  • Differences in kinetics and dynamics of endogenous versus exogenous advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their precursors, 2022, Food and Chemical Toxicology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sebastiaan Wesseling
  • Wouter Bakker
  • Gerhard Eisenbrand
  • Hans Bouwmeester
  • Samuel M. Cohen

Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens has been recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Tissue Distribution of Quercetin in Rats and Pigs

    Vincent C. J. de Boer;Ashwin A. Dihal;Hester van der Woude;Ilja C. W. Arts

  • The influence of pH on antioxidant properties and the mechanism of antioxidant action of hydroxyflavones.

    Katarzyna Lemańska;Henryk Szymusiak;Bożena Tyrakowska;Ryszard Zieliński

  • The pro-oxidant chemistry of the natural antioxidants vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenoids and flavonoids.

    Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens;Marelle G. Boersma;Laura de Haan;Bert Spenkelink

  • The potential health effects of dietary phytoestrogens

    Ivonne M C M Rietjens;Jochem Louisse;Karsten Beekmann

  • The interplay of glutathione-related processes in antioxidant defense

    N.H.P. Cnubben;I.M.C.M. Rietjens;H. Wortelboer;J.J. van Zanden

  • Risks to human and animal health related to the presence of deoxynivalenol and its acetylated and modified forms in food and feed

    Helle Katrine Knutsen;Jan Alexander;Lars Barregård;Margherita Bignami

  • Safety evaluation of neem (Azadirachta indica) derived pesticides

    Sara J Boeke;Marelle G Boersma;Gerrit M Alink;Joop J.A van Loon

  • Regioselectivity of phase II metabolism of luteolin and quercetin by UDP-glucuronosyl transferases.

    Marelle G Boersma;Hester van der Woude;Jan Bogaards;Sjef Boeren

  • Flavonoids and alkenylbenzenes: mechanisms of mutagenic action and carcinogenic risk.

    Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens;Marelle G. Boersma;Hester van der Woude;Suzanne M.F. Jeurissen

  • Role of surface charge and oxidative stress in cytotoxicity of organic monolayer-coated silicon nanoparticles towards macrophage NR8383 cells

    Sourav Bhattacharjee;Laura H J de Haan;Nynke M Evers;Xue Jiang

  • Prooxidant toxicity of polyphenolic antioxidants to HL‐60 cells: description of quantitative structure‐activity relationships

    Egl≐ Sergedien≐;Kerstin Jönsson;Henryk Szymusiak;Bozena Tyrakowska

  • Nitrate and nitrite in the diet: How to assess their benefit and risk for human health

    Michael Habermeyer;Angelika Roth;Sabine Guth;Patrick Diel

  • Behaviour of silver nanoparticles and silver ions in an in vitro human gastrointestinal digestion model.

    Agata P. Walczak;Remco Fokkink;Ruud Peters;Peter Tromp

  • Rapid yeast estrogen bioassays stably expressing human estrogen receptors α and β, and green fluorescent protein: a comparison of different compounds with both receptor types

    Toine F.H. Bovee;Richard J.R. Helsdingen;Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens;Jaap Keijer

  • Translocation of differently sized and charged polystyrene nanoparticles in in vitro intestinal cell models of increasing complexity.

    Agata P. Walczak;Evelien Kramer;Peter J. M. Hendriksen;Peter Tromp

  • Quantitative structure activity relationship studies on the flavonoid mediated inhibition of multidrug resistance proteins 1 and 2.

    Jelmer J. van Zanden;Heleen M. Wortelboer;Sabina Bijlsma;Ans Punt

  • Pro-oxidant activity of flavonoids induces EpRE-mediated gene expression.

    Yee Y. Lee-Hilz;Anne-Marie J. F. Boerboom;Adrie H. Westphal;Willem J. H. van Berkel

  • Peroxidase-catalyzed formation of quercetin quinone methide-glutathione adducts.

    Hanem M. Awad;Marelle G. Boersma;Jacques Vervoort;Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens

  • Alkaloids in the human food chain - Natural occurrence and possible adverse effects

    I. Koleva;T.A. van Beek;A.E.M.F. Soffers;B. Dusemund

  • Identification of 14 Quercetin Phase II Mono- and Mixed Conjugates and Their Formation by Rat and Human Phase II in Vitro Model Systems

    H. van der Woude;M.G. Boersma;J.J.M. Vervoort;I.M.C.M. Rietjens

  • Biphasic modulation of cell proliferation by quercetin at concentrations physiologically relevant in humans.

    Hester van der Woude;Anna Gliszczyńska-Świgło;Anna Gliszczyńska-Świgło;Karin Struijs;Astrid Smeets

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Vervoort
Jacques Vervoort Wageningen University & Research
Peter J. van Bladeren
Peter J. van Bladeren Nestlé (Switzerland)
Cees Veeger
Cees Veeger Wageningen University & Research
Samuel Monroe Cohen
Samuel Monroe Cohen University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sjef Boeren
Sjef Boeren Wageningen University & Research
Karl-Heinz Engel
Karl-Heinz Engel Technical University of Munich
P.J. van Bladeren
P.J. van Bladeren Nestlé (Switzerland)
Aldert H. Piersma
Aldert H. Piersma Centre for Health Protection
Fidel Toldrá
Fidel Toldrá Spanish National Research Council
Laurence Castle
Laurence Castle Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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