Brevetoxins, like ciguatoxins, are potent ichthyotoxic neurotoxins that accumulate in fish

Toxicon

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 707-723

  Naar, Jerome P ^a   Flewelling, Leanne J ^b   Lenzi, Allison ^a   Abbott, Jay P ^b   Granholm, April ^b   Jacocks, Henry M ^a   Gannon, Damon ^c   Henry, Michael ^c   Pierce, Richard ^c   Baden, Daniel G ^a   Wolny, Jennifer ^b   Landsberg, Jan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brevetoxins; Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP); Ciguatoxins; Food web transfer; Gambierdiscus toxicus; Human health; Ichthyotoxins; Karenia brevis; Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning (NSP); Vector

Indexed keywords

BREVETOXIN; CIGUATOXIN; FISH VENOM; NEUROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; FISH; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PLANKTIVORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHELLFISH; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; MARINE TOXINS; MERCENARIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROTOXINS; OXOCINS; SHELLFISH; SMEGMAMORPHA;

CIGUATERA; GAMBIERDISCUS TOXICUS; KARENIA BREVIS;

EID: 34548642089     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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