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Neurotoxic Alkaloids: Saxitoxin and Its Analogs

Marine Drugs, 2010
Saxitoxin (STX) and its 57 analogs are a broad group of natural neurotoxic alkaloids, commonly known as the paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs). PSTs are the causative agents of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and are mostly associated with marine ...
Troco K. Mihali, Michelle C. Moffitt, Brett A. Neilan, Maria Wiese, Paul M. D’Agostino   +4 more
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Commentary on AOAC Method for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, 1980
Abstract Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is caused by ingesting bivalve molluscan shellfish which have fed on the toxigenic marine dinoflagellates Conyaulax catanella or G. tamarensis. The toxins from these organisms are neurotoxic alkaloids which interfere with nerve conduction and block muscleaction potential. The U.S.
W N, Adams, J J, Miescier
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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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Prominent Human Health Impacts from Several Marine Microbes: History, Ecology, and Public Health Implications

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, S. V. DeFelice, E. A. Laws, L. E. Brand, R. R. Bidigare, S. Christensen, H. Trapido-Rosenthal, T. K. Hemscheidt, D. J. McGillicuddy, D. M. Anderson, H. M. Solo-Gabriele, A. B. Boehm, L. C. Backer   +12 more
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A Carbamoylase-Based Bioassay for the Detection of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2020
Raposo M, Botelho MJ, Costa ST, Gomes MTSR, Rudnitskaya A.   +4 more
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning in Singapore.

Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 1986
Paralytic shellfish poisoning is caused by the ingestion of shellfish meat rendered toxic by exposure to a high level of toxic dinoflagellates during the phenomenon of "red tide". This paper reports the first outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning from green mussels in Singapore which resulted in two deaths.
C T, Tan, E J, Lee
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Limnological Differences in a Two-Basin Lake Help to Explain the Occurrence of Anatoxin-a, Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins, and Microcystins. [PDF]

Toxins (Basel), 2020
Smith ZJ, Conroe DE, Schulz KL, Boyer GL.   +3 more
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UEG Week 2025 Poster Presentations

United European Gastroenterology Journal, Volume 13, Issue S8, Page S803-S1476, October 2025.
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Saxitoxin time–resolved absorption and resonance FT–IR and Raman biospectroscopy and density functional theory investigation of vibronic–mode coupling structure in vibrational spectra analysis

American Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research, 2019
Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best–known paralytic shellfish toxin (PST). Ingestion of Saxitoxin by humans, usually by consumption of shellfish contaminated by toxic algal blooms, is responsible for the illness known as paralytic ...
Alireza Heidari, Jennifer Esposito, Angela Caissutti   +2 more
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Are Alexandrium catenella Blooms Spreading Offshore in Southern Chile? An In-Depth Analysis of the First PSP Outbreak in the Oceanic Coast

Fishes
The blooms of Alexandrium catenella, the main producer of paralytic shellfish toxins worldwide, have become the main threat to coastal activities in Southern Chile, such as artisanal fisheries, aquaculture and public health.
Patricio A. Díaz, Sergio A. Rosales, Carlos Molinet, Edwin J. Niklitschek, Andrés Marín, Daniel Varela, Miriam Seguel, Manuel Díaz, Rosa I. Figueroa, Leila Basti, Cristina Hernández, Pamela Carbonell, Bárbara Cantarero, Gonzalo Álvarez   +13 more
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