Paralytic Shellfish Toxins (PST)-Transforming Enzymes: A Review [PDF]
Toxins, 2020 Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are a group of toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning through blockage of voltage-gated sodium channels.
Mariana I. C. Raposo +3 more
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Methodologies for Detoxifying Bivalves from Marine Paralytic Shellfish Toxins [PDF]
Marine DrugsThe marine environment emerges as a key provider of food and sustainable products. However, these benefits are accompanied by numerous challenges owing to harmful algal blooms (HAB) and their associated biotoxins, which accumulate in organisms, like ...
Adewale Aderogba +2 more
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Accumulation and Elimination Dynamics of the Hydroxybenzoate Saxitoxin Analogues in Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis Exposed to the Toxic Marine Dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum [PDF]
Toxins, 2018 Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a severe food-borne illness, caused by the ingestion of seafood containing paralytic shellfish toxins (PST), which are naturally produced by marine dinoflagellates and accumulate in shellfish during algae blooms ...
Pedro Reis Costa +2 more
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An Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins from Shellfish in Zhejiang Province, China [PDF]
Toxins, 2023 The intake of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) may adversely affect human health. Therefore, this study aimed to show the prevalence of PSTs from commercially available shellfish in Zhejiang Province, China, during the period of frequent red tides ...
Qin Weng +11 more
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Past, Current and Future Techniques for Monitoring Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Bivalve Molluscs [PDF]
ToxinsParalytic shellfish poisoning is a threat to human health caused by the consumption of shellfish contaminated with toxins of the saxitoxin class. Human health is protected by the setting of regulatory limits and the analysis of shellfish prior to sale ...
Sarah C. Finch, D. Tim Harwood
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First Report of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Marine Invertebrates and Fish in Spain [PDF]
Toxins, 2020 A paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) episode developed in summer 2018 in the Rías Baixas (Galicia, NW Spain). The outbreak was associated with an unprecedentedly intense and long-lasting harmful algal bloom (HAB) (~one month) caused by the ...
Begoña Ben-Gigirey +3 more
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Biocatalytic Detoxification of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins. [PDF]
ACS Chem Biol, 2019 Small molecules that bind to voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) are promising leads in the treatment of numerous neurodegenerative diseases and pain. Nature is a highly skilled medicinal chemist in this regard, designing potent VGSC ligands capable of binding to and blocking the channel, thereby offering compounds of potential therapeutic interest ...
Lukowski AL +5 more
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Paralytic Shellfish Toxins and Ocean Warming: Bioaccumulation and Ecotoxicological Responses in Juvenile Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata). [PDF]
Toxins (Basel), 2019 Warmer seawater temperatures are expected to increase harmful algal blooms (HABs) occurrence, intensity, and distribution. Yet, the potential interactions between abiotic stressors and HABs are still poorly understood from ecological and seafood safety ...
Barbosa V +6 more
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Contamination Status and Risk Assessment of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Shellfish along the Coastal Areas of China [PDF]
Marine DrugsParalytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are widely distributed in shellfish along the coast of China, causing a serious threat to consumer health; however, there is still a lack of large-scale systematic investigations and risk assessments.
Guanchao Zheng +8 more
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Evaluation of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Marine Oyster Farming and Microalgae in the Atlantic Amazon Evidences Safety but Highlights Potential Risks of Shellfish Poisoning [PDF]
Toxins, 2022 Marine phycotoxins are organic compounds synthesized by some species of microalgae, which accumulate in the tissues of filter-feeder organisms such as bivalve mollusks.
Francisco Arimatéia dos Santos Alves +7 more
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