Toxic Flatworm Egg Plates Serve as a Possible Source of Tetrodotoxin for Pufferfish

The pufferfish Takifugu niphobles (at present Takifugu alboplumbeus) possesses highly concentrated tetrodotoxin (TTX), an extremely potent neurotoxin that provides effective protection from predators, at least at the larval stages. However, the source of the toxin has remained unclear. Recently, DNA...

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Autores principales: Okabe, Taiki, Oyama, Hikaru, Kashitani, Maho, Ishimaru, Yuta, Suo, Rei, Sugita, Haruo, Itoi, Shiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31373322
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11070402

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31373322
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11070402

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