A simplified and inexpensive method for extraction and quantification of tetrodotoxin from tissue samples

Herpetological Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 298-301

  Lehman, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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