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Including planocerid flatworms in the diet effectively toxifies the pufferfish, Takifugu niphobles

Beginning with the larval stages, marine pufferfish such as Takifugu niphobles contain tetrodotoxin (TTX), an extremely potent neurotoxin. Although highly concentrated TTX has been detected in adults and juveniles of these fish, the source of the toxin has remained unclear. Here we show that TTX in...

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Autores principales: Itoi, Shiro, Ueda, Hiroyuki, Yamada, Riko, Takei, Mitsuki, Sato, Tatsunori, Oshikiri, Shotaro, Wajima, Yoshiki, Ogata, Ryuya, Oyama, Hikaru, Shitto, Takahiro, Okuhara, Kazuya, Tsunashima, Tadasuke, Sawayama, Eitaro, Sugita, Haruo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6098040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30120305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30696-z