Multiple organ damage caused by a new toxin azaspiracid, isolated from mussels produced in Ireland

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 917-930

  Ito, Emiko ^a   Satake, Masayuki ^b   Ofuji, Katsuya ^b   Kurita, Nobuyuki ^a   McMahon, Terry ^c   James, Kevin ^d   Yasumoto, Takeshi ^e  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^d Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^e JAPAN FOOD RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZASPIRACID; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FOOD POISONING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRELAND; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOOD POISONING; INTESTINES; IRELAND; LIVER; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OKADAIC ACID; SHELLFISH; SPIRO COMPOUNDS; SPLEEN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033974774     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(99)00203-2     Document Type: Article

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