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HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: EFFECTS ON HUMAN HEALTH.
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2013 A harmful algal bloom (HAB) is defined as a bloom that has deleterious effects on plants, animals or humans. Marine algal toxins are responsible for an array of human illnesses associated with consumption of seafood or exposure to aerosolized toxins ...
Margherita Ferrante
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Phycotoxins in Marine Shellfish: Origin, Occurrence and Effects on Humans
Marine Drugs, 2018 Massive phytoplankton proliferation, and the consequent release of toxic metabolites, can be responsible for seafood poisoning outbreaks: filter-feeding mollusks, such as shellfish, mussels, oysters or clams, can accumulate these toxins throughout the ...
Federica Farabegoli +4 more
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Foods, 2021 The consumption of shellfish contaminated with brevetoxins, a family of ladder-frame polyether toxins formed during blooms of the marine dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, can cause neurotoxic poisoning, leading to gastroenteritis and neurotoxic effects.
Xiya Zhang +8 more
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Detection of shellfish toxins from scallops in Guangzhou seafood market
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2011 To evaluate scallop safety in the Guangzhou seafood market, contents of shellfish toxins in adductor muscle, mantle skirts, gills and visceral mass of scallops were examined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and mouse unit assay.
L Huazhang +6 more
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Marine Drugs, 2021 In recent decades, more than 130 potentially toxic metabolites originating from dinoflagellate species belonging to the genus Karenia or metabolized by marine organisms have been described.
Vincent Hort +4 more
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Marine Biotoxins: Occurrence, Toxicity, Regulatory Limits and Reference Methods
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Harmful algal blooms are natural phenomena caused by the massive growth of phytoplankton that may contain highly toxic chemicals, the so-called marine biotoxins causing illness and even death to both aquatic organisms and humans.
Pierina Visciano +5 more
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Acute Effects of Brevetoxin-3 Administered via Oral Gavage to Mice
Marine Drugs, 2023 Brevetoxins (BTXs) constitute a family of lipid-soluble toxic cyclic polyethers mainly produced by Karenia brevis, which is the main vector for a foodborne syndrome known as neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) in humans.
Peggy Barbe +6 more
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Age and Sex as Determinants of Acute Domoic Acid Toxicity in a Mouse Model
Toxins, 2023 The excitatory neurotoxin domoic acid (DA) consistently contaminates food webs in coastal regions around the world. Acute exposure to the toxin causes Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, a potentially lethal syndrome of gastrointestinal- and seizure-related ...
Alicia M. Hendrix +5 more
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Toxins, 2019 Ciguatera is the term for poisoning resulting from eating fish from tropical or subtropical regions. The causative toxins collectively named ciguatoxins (CTXs) widely differ in structures depending on their geographic origins, which range from the ...
Kazuya Murata, Takeshi Yasumoto
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International Journal of Microbiology, 2011 This paper overviews several examples of important public health impacts by marine microbes and directs readers to the extensive literature germane to these maladies.
P. K. Bienfang +12 more
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