Yessotoxins - Polycyclic ethers from dinoflagellates: Relationships to diarrhetic shellfish toxins

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-157

  Bowden, Bruce F ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diarrhetic shellfish toxin; DSP; Lingulodinium polyedrum; Protoceratium reticulatum; Yessotoxin

Indexed keywords

11 DESULFOYESSOTOXIN; 32BETA ARABINOFURONASIDE; 40 EPINOROXYESSOTOXIN; 41A HOMOYESSOTOXIN; 45 HYDOXY 2 HOMOYESSOTOXIN; 45 HYDOXYYESSOTOXIN; 45,46,47 TRINORYESSOTOXIN; 9 METHYL 41A HOMOYESSOTOXIN; ADRIATOXIN; BREVETOXIN; CARBOXYHOMOYESSOTOXIN; CARBOXYYESSOTOXIN; CIGUATOXIN; COOLIATOXIN; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GLYCOYESSOTOXIN A; HEPTANOR 41 OXOYESSOTOXIN; HOMOYESSOTOXIN; NOR RING A YESSOTOXIN; NOROXO 2 HOMOYESSOTOXIN; NOROXOYESSOTOXIN; OKADAIC ACID; SHELLFISH TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YESSOTOXIN;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BIOASSAY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DINOFLAGELLATE; ELECTROSPRAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXOCRINE GLAND; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; FOOD POISONING; GILL; HEPATOPANCREAS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LD 50; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSSEL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SCALLOP; SHELLFISH POISONING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

DINOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYSIS; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; PECTINIDAE; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM;

EID: 33645096522     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540600599209     Document Type: Review

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