Emergent marine toxins risk assessment using molecular and chemical approaches [PDF]
EFSA Journal, 2022 Cyanobacteria harmful blooms represent a deviation to the normal equilibrium in planktonic communities involving a rapid and uncontrolled growth. Owing to the capacity to produce toxins as secondary metabolites, cyanobacteria may cause huge economic ...
Y García‐Cazorla, V Vasconcelos
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Commemorating the Launch of the Section “Marine Toxins” [PDF]
Marine DrugsMarine toxins are natural compounds produced by a variety of marine organisms, including microalgae, bacteria, and macroalgae [...]
Andrew Turner, Panagiota Katikou
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Special Issue on Marine Toxins [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2009 n ...
Alejandro M.S. Mayer
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Marine Toxins as Pharmaceutical Treasure Troves: A Focus on Saxitoxin Derivatives from a Computational Point of View [PDF]
MoleculesThis work highlights the significant potential of marine toxins, particularly saxitoxin (STX) and its derivatives, in the exploration of novel pharmaceuticals.
Norma Flores-Holguín +4 more
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The Incidence of Marine Toxins and the Associated Seafood Poisoning Episodes in the African Countries of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea [PDF]
Toxins, 2019 The occurrence of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and bacteria can be one of the great threats to public health due to their ability to produce marine toxins (MTs).
Isidro José Tamele +2 more
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How Safe Is Safe for Marine Toxins Monitoring? [PDF]
Toxins, 2016 Current regulation for marine toxins requires a monitoring method based on mass spectrometric analysis. This method is pre-targeted, hence after searching for pre-assigned masses, it identifies those compounds that were pre-defined with available ...
Luis M. Botana +5 more
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Mycosporine-Like Amino Acids and Marine Toxins - The Common and the Different
Marine Drugs, 2008 Marine microorganisms harbor a multitude of secondary metabolites. Among these are toxins of different chemical classes as well as the UV-protective mycosporinelike amino acids (MAAs).
Donat P. Häder, Manfred Klisch
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Marine Toxins Targeting Ion Channels
Marine Drugs, 2006 : This introductory minireview points out the importance of ion channels for cell communication. The basic concepts on the structure and function of ion channels triggered by membrane voltage changes, the so-called voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs), as ...
Hugo R. Arias
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Effects of Marine Toxins on the Reproduction and Early Stages Development of Aquatic Organisms
Marine Drugs, 2010 Marine organisms, and specially phytoplankton species, are able to produce a diverse array of toxic compounds that are not yet fully understood in terms of their main targets and biological function.
Vítor Ramos +3 more
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Computational Studies of Marine Toxins Targeting Ion Channels [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2013 Toxins from marine animals offer novel drug leads for treatment of diseases involving ion channels. Computational methods could be very helpful in this endeavour in several ways, e.g., (i) constructing accurate models of the channel-toxin complexes using
Serdar Kuyucak +2 more
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