Paralytic toxicity in the ribbon worm Cephalothrix species (Nemertea) in Hiroshima Bay, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan and the isolation of tetrodotoxin as a main component of its toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 747-753

  Asakawa, Manabu ^a   Toyoshima, Tadayoshi ^a   Ito, Katsutoshi ^a   Bessho, Kentaro ^a   Yamaguchi, Chisato ^a   Tsunetsugu, Shogo ^a   Shida, Yasuo ^b   Kajihara, Hiroshi ^c   Mawatari, Shunsuke F ^c   Noguchi, Tamao ^d   Miyazawa, Keisuke ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; IR; NMR; Oyster; Ribbon worm; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; METHANOL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OYSTER; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WORM;

CEPHALOTHRIX; NEMERTEA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0038358205     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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