A predictive model to estimate total skin tetrodotoxin in the newt Taricha granulosa

Toxicon

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-249

  Hanifin, Charles T ^a   Brodie III, Edmund D ^b   Brodie Jr , Edmund D ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudata; Coevolution; Predator prey; Salamandridae; Taricha granulosa; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; FEMALE; MALE; MODEL; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GLAND; SKIN TOXICITY; TARICHA GRANULOSA; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SALAMANDRIDAE; SKIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TARICHA; TARICHA GRANULOSA;

EID: 1642333934     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2003.11.025     Document Type: Article

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