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Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) were screened for 12 phycotoxins over two years in nearshore waters to collect baseline phycotoxin data and to determine prevalence of phycotoxin co-occurrence in the commercially and ecologically-relevant species.
Sarah K.D. Pease +12 more
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Current Trends and New Challenges in Marine Phycotoxins
Marine phycotoxins are a multiplicity of bioactive compounds which are produced by microalgae and bioaccumulate in the marine food web. Phycotoxins affect the ecosystem, pose a threat to human health, and have important economic effects on aquaculture ...
Maria Carmen Louzao +7 more
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Recent Advances in Aptasensing Strategies for Monitoring Phycotoxins: Promising for Food Safety
Phycotoxins or marine toxins cause massive harm to humans, livestock, and pets. Current strategies based on ordinary methods are long time-wise and require expert operators, and are not reliable for on-site and real-time use.
Hamed Zahraee +5 more
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Tropical epibenthic dinoflagellate communities produce a plethora of bioactive secondary metabolites, including the toxins ciguatoxins (CTXs) and potentially gambierones, that can contaminate fishes, leading to ciguatera poisoning (CP) when consumed by ...
Alexander K. Leynse +4 more
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasing globally in frequency, persistence, and geographic extent, posing a threat to ecosystem and human health.
Holly Kelchner +5 more
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First Identification of Amphidinols from Mexican Strains and New Analogs
The genus Amphidinium has been the subject of recent attention due to the production of polyketide metabolites. Some of these compounds have shown significant bioactivities and could be related to species interactions in the natural benthic ...
Lorena M. Durán-Riveroll +2 more
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Human shellfish poisoning: Implementation of a national surveillance program in France
Toxic algae and their toxins represent an emerging public health issue, particularly due to global warming. The toxicological mechanisms of neurotoxic phycotoxins and their human health effects have been widely described (paralytic, neurological, amnesic,
Sandra Sinno-Tellier +6 more
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EU Regulatory Risk Management of Marine Biotoxins in the Marine Bivalve Mollusc Food-Chain
Food safety risk assessment in the European Union (EU) recognises consumer illness that arises from marine biotoxins as a risk associated with bivalve mollusc consumption.
Micheál O’Mahony
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Histological analysis of heart after domoic acid administration in rats
1.- Introduction. Domoic acid (DOM) was the marine toxin responsible of a poisoning incident in Canada after the consumption of contaminated shellfish (concretely blue mussels, Mytilus edulis) (Perl et al. 1990).
Andrés Crespo Vieira
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Comparison of Strategies to Overcome Drug Resistance: Learning from Various Kingdoms
Drug resistance, especially antibiotic resistance, is a growing threat to human health. To overcome this problem, it is significant to know precisely the mechanisms of drug resistance and/or self-resistance in various kingdoms, from bacteria through ...
Hiroshi Ogawara
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