Highly Toxic Ribbon Worm Cephalothrix simula Containing Tetrodotoxin in Hiroshima Bay, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

In 1998, during a toxicological surveillance of various marine fouling organisms in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, specimens of the ribbon worm, Cephalothrix simula (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea) were found. These ribbon worms contained toxins with extremely strong paralytic activity. The maximum toxicity in ter...

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Autores principales: Asakawa, Manabu, Ito, Katsutoshi, Kajihara, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2013
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23430577
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins5020376

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23430577
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins5020376

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