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Toxic Effects and Tumor Promotion Activity of Marine Phytoplankton Toxins: A Review

Toxins, 2022
Phytoplankton are photosynthetic microorganisms in aquatic environments that produce many bioactive substances. However, some of them are toxic to aquatic organisms via filter-feeding and are even poisonous to humans through the food chain.
Biswajita Pradhan, Hansol Kim, Sofia Abassi, Jang-Seu Ki   +3 more
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Brevenal inhibits pacific ciguatoxin-1B-induced neurosecretion from bovine chromaffin cells.

PLoS ONE, 2008
Ciguatoxins and brevetoxins are neurotoxic cyclic polyether compounds produced by dinoflagellates, which are responsible for ciguatera and neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) respectively. Recently, brevenal, a natural compound was found to specifically
César Mattei, Peter J Wen, Truong D Nguyen-Huu, Martha Alvarez, Evelyne Benoit, Andrea J Bourdelais, Richard J Lewis, Daniel G Baden, Jordi Molgó, Frédéric A Meunier   +9 more
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Ciguatera fish poisoning in the Caribbean islands and western Atlantic

, 2001
Ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatera), a common poisoning caused by fish ingestion, is reviewed in the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean waters. It is endemic from Florida coasts (northern limit) to Martinique Island (southern limit), with outbreaks ...
Vernoux, Jean-Paul, Lewis, Richard, J, Ivannah Pottier, Lewis, R. J., Pottier, Ivannah, Vernoux, J. P., Pottier, I., Jean-Paul Vernoux, Richard J. Lewis   +8 more
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An Attempt to Characterize the Ciguatoxin Profile in Seriola fasciata Causing Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Macaronesia

Toxins, 2019
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning is a worldwide concern caused by the consumption of fish contaminated with ciguatoxins not only in endemic regions in the Pacific Ocean or the Caribbean Sea but also in emerging areas of Macaronesia on the eastern Atlantic.
Pablo Estevez, David Castro, Ana Pequeño-Valtierra, José M. Leao, Oscar Vilariño, Jorge Diogène, Ana Gago-Martínez   +6 more
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Ciguatera Poisoning: A Global Issue with Common Management Problems [PDF]

, 2001
Ciguatera poisoning, a toxinological syndrome comprising an enigmatic mixture of gastrointestinal, neurocutaneous and constitutional symptoms, is a common food-borne illness related to contaminated fish consumption.
Ting, Joseph Y. S., Brown, A. F. T.
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Intoxicación por ciguatera: Estudio de 227 pacientes durante el periodo 1999 al 2005 Ciguatera poisoning: Study of 277 patients in the 1999-2005 period.

Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología, 2007
La ciguatera es la intoxicación alimentaría causada por el consumo de pescados ciguatóxicos, cuyos efectos sobre el ser humano pueden ser graves y conducir a la muerte.
Carlos Manuel Maya Entenza, Miladys Martín Labrador, Marisol Monteagudo Torres   +2 more
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Indigenous knowledge with science forms an early warning system for ciguatera fish poisoning outbreak in Vanuatu

Communications Earth & Environment
Indigenous and traditional knowledge of the natural environment is crucial for policymakers and community leaders in Vanuatu. Here, we employ a mixed-methods approach to collect data from East, North, and West Area councils in Ambae Island, Vanuatu, and ...
Allan Rarai, Eberhard Weber, John Ruben, Meg Parsons   +3 more
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Development of a quantitative PCR assay for the detection and enumeration of a potentially ciguatoxin-producing dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus lapillus (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae).

PLoS ONE, 2019
Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is an illness contracted through the ingestion of seafood containing ciguatoxins. It is prevalent in tropical regions worldwide, including in Australia. Ciguatoxins are produced by some species of Gambierdiscus.
Anna Liza Kretzschmar, Arjun Verma, Gurjeet Kohli, Shauna Murray   +3 more
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Neurotoxic Syndromes in Marine Poisonings a Review

Iranian South Medical Journal, 2014
Background: Marine neurotoxins as of Marine biotoxins are natural toxins that produced mainly by dinoflagellates, diatoms and several species of invertebrates and fish.
Gholam Hossein Mohebbi, Iraj Nabipour, Amir Vazirizadeh   +2 more
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Ciguatera fish poisoning

, 2015
Ciguatera poisoning is a type of food poisoning which is caused by eating certain types of fish.
Centre for Disease Control
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