Multiple ciguatoxins present in Indian Ocean reef fish

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1347-1353

  Hamilton, Brett ^a,b   Hurbungs, Mira ^c   Jones, Alun ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of Queensland and Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences   (Australia)

^c Ministry of Fisheries   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

Brevetoxin; Ciguatera; Ciguatoxin; Indian Ocean; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BREVETOXIN; CIGUATOXIN; TRITIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DINOFLAGELLATE; EXTRACT; FISH; INDIAN OCEAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIGUATOXINS; FISHES; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE TOXINS; MICE; OXOCINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TRITIUM;

DINOPHYCEAE; LUTJANUS; LUTJANUS SEBAE;

EID: 0036709221     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00146-0     Document Type: Article

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