Accumulation of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in Pseudocaligus fugu, a parasitic copepod from panther puffer Takifugu pardalis, but without vertical transmission-Using an immunoenzymatic technique

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 116-122

  Ikeda, Koichi ^a   Venmathi Maran, B A ^b   Honda, Shunichi ^a   Ohtsuka, Susumu ^b   Arakawa, Osamu ^a   Takatani, Tomohiro ^a   Asakawa, Manabu ^b   Boxshall, Geoffrey A ^c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monoclonal antibody; Pseudocaligus fugu; Tetrodotoxin; Toxic and non toxic puffer fishes; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEASOME; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCALIGUS FUGU; PUFFER FISH; SKIN; STAINING; UTERUS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TETRODOTOXIN;

CALIGIDAE; COPEPODA; PSEUDOCALIGUS; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU PARDALIS; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 33746512054     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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