Secretory glands of tetrodotoxin in the skin of the Japanese newt Cynops pyrrhogaster

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-136

  Tsuruda, Kazumi ^a   Arakawa, Osamu ^a   Kawatsu, Kentaro ^b   Hamano, Yonekazu ^b   Takatani, Tomohiro ^a   Noguchi, Tamao ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cynops pyrrhogaster; Immunoenzymatic technique; Monoclonal antibody; Newt; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; GRANULAR CELL; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MUCUS GLAND; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; STIMULUS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; EXOCRINE GLANDS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SALAMANDRIDAE; SKIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0036027359     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(01)00198-2     Document Type: Article

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