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An Updated Review of Tetrodotoxin and Its Peculiarities

Marine Drugs, 2022
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a crystalline, weakly basic, colorless organic substance and is one of the most potent marine toxins known. Although TTX was first isolated from pufferfish, it has been found in numerous other marine organisms and a few terrestrial ...
Panagiota Katikou, Cengiz Gokbulut, Ali Rıza Kosker, Mònica Campàs, Fatih Ozogul   +4 more
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Elemental composition of pufferfish species from Northeastern Mediterranean Sea

, 2019
PubMedID: 31049756This study aimed at comparing the elemental levels of muscle and liver tissues of four pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus, Lagocephalus spadiceus, Lagocephalus suezensis, and Torquigener flavimaculosus), which are common in the ...
Kosker A.R., Durmus M., Ozogul F., Ucar Y., Ayas D.   +4 more
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Spatio-temporal distribution of pufferfish (Tetraodontidae) along the Turkish coast of the Mediterranean Sea

, 2021
Pufferfish represent a serious threat to the marine ecosystem in the Mediterranean Sea. To better understand the population dynamics of pufferfish and their relation with ecological parameters, six pufferfish species were studied in two fishing and one ...
MUTLU, ERHAN, DE MEO, ILARIA, MIGLIETTA, CLAUDIA   +2 more
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Co-Occurrence of Tetrodotoxin and Saxitoxins and Their Intra-Body Distribution in the Pufferfish Canthigaster valentini

Toxins, 2020
Pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae possess tetrodotoxin (TTX) and/or saxitoxins (STXs), but the toxin ratio differs, depending on the genus or species.
Hongchen Zhu, Takayuki Sonoyama, Misako Yamada, Wei Gao, Ryohei Tatsuno, Tomohiro Takatani, Osamu Arakawa   +6 more
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Evolution and Developmental Diversity of Skin Spines in Pufferfishes [PDF]

iScience, 2019
Teleost fishes develop remarkable varieties of skin ornaments. The developmental basis of these structures is poorly understood. The order Tetraodontiformes includes diverse fishes such as the ocean sunfishes, triggerfishes, and pufferfishes, which exhibit a vast assortment of scale derivatives.
Shono, T., Thiery, A.P., Cooper, R.L., Kurokawa, D., Britz, R., Okabe, M., Fraser, G.J.   +6 more
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Tetrodotoxin Poisoning Due to Pufferfish and Gastropods, and Their Intoxication Mechanism [PDF]

, 2011
Marine pufferfish generally contain a large amount of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in their skin and viscera, and have caused many incidences of food poisoning, especially in Japan.
Kazue Onuki, Tamao Noguchi, Osamu Arakawa   +2 more
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Lactococcus garvieae as a Novel Pathogen in Cultured Pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus) in China

Fishes
In October 2023, a disease outbreak in pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus) farms in Zhongshan City, Guangdong, China, caused high mortality. Diseased fish (mean length: 15 ± 1 cm) exhibited swimming disorders, fin rot, hemorrhage, and an enlarged spleen ...
Ruilong Xu, Zhongning He, Yiyang Deng, Yihao Cen, Zequan Mo, Xueming Dan, Yanwei Li   +6 more
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FXYD8, a Novel Regulator of Renal Na+/K+-ATPase in the Euryhaline Teleost, Tetraodon nigroviridis

Frontiers in Physiology, 2017
FXYD proteins are important regulators of Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA) activity in mammals. As an inhabitant of estuaries, the pufferfish (Tetraodon nigroviridis) responds to ambient salinity changes with efficient osmoregulation, including alterations in ...
Pei-Jen Wang, Pei-Jen Wang, Wen-Kai Yang, Wen-Kai Yang, Chia-Hao Lin, Hau-Hsuan Hwang, Tsung-Han Lee, Tsung-Han Lee   +7 more
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First Toxicological Analysis of the Pufferfish Sphoeroides pachygaster Collected in Italian Waters (Strait of Sicily): Role of Citizens Science in Monitoring Toxic Marine Species

Animals, 2023
Pufferfish (Tetraodontidae) inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea may represent an emerging public health risk due to the possible accumulation of marine neurotoxins such as tetrodotoxin (TTXs) and saxitoxin (STXs) in their tissues.
Chiara Malloggi, Biagio Rizzo, Alice Giusti, Lisa Guardone, Laura Gasperetti, Sonia Dall’Ara, Andrea Armani   +6 more
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Morphological variations in marine pufferfish and porcupinefish (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes) from Tamil Nadu, southeastern coast of India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
In the present study, morphological variations in 14 species of two families, Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae, were examined for individuals collected from five different centres in Tamil Nadu in the southeastern coast of India.
K. Kaleshkumar, R. Rajaram, P. Purushothaman, G. Arun   +3 more
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