An Updated Review of Tetrodotoxin and Its Peculiarities
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Fecha de publicación
2022-01-03ISSN
1660-3397
Resumen
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a crystalline, weakly basic, colorless organic substance and is one of the most potent marine toxins known. Although TTX was first isolated from pufferfish, it has been found in numerous other marine organisms and a few terrestrial species. Moreover, tetrodotoxication is still an important health problem today, as TTX has no known antidote. TTX poisonings were most commonly reported from Japan, Thailand, and China, but today the risk of TTX poisoning is spreading around the world. Recent studies have shown that TTX-containing fish are being found in other regions of the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. This review aims to summarize pertinent information available to date on the structure, origin, distribution, mechanism of action of TTX and analytical methods used for the detection of TTX, as well as on TTX-containing organisms, symptoms of TTX poisoning, and incidence worldwide.
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English
Materias (CDU)
574 - Ecología general y biodiversidad
Páginas
50
Publicado por
MDPI
Publicado en
Marine Drugs
Citación
Katikou, Panagiota, Cengiz Gokbulut, Ali Rıza Kosker, Mònica Campàs, and Fatih Ozogul. 2022. "An Updated Review Of Tetrodotoxin And Its Peculiarities". Marine Drugs 20 (1): 47. doi:10.3390/md20010047.
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Aigües Marines i Continentals
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