Toxicity of the Red Sea pufferfish Pleuranacanthus sceleratus "El-Karad"

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-372

  El Sayed, M ^a   Yacout, G A ^a   El Samra, M ^b   Ali, A ^c   Kotb, S M ^b  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^c Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Pufferfish; Tetrodotoxin; Toxins

Indexed keywords

FISH VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN; TRIMETHYLSILYL DERIVATIVE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; TOXIN;

ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GONAD; LIVER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PUFFER FISH; SKIN; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

RED SEA;

PLEURANACANTHUS SCELERATUS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0142155581     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-6513(02)00142-2     Document Type: Article

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