Domoic acid toxicologic pathology: A review

Marine Drugs

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-219

  Pulido, Olga M ^a,b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amnesic shellfish poisoning; Domoic acid; Excitotoxicity; Food safety; Glutamate receptors; Neuropathology; Neurotoxicology; Toxicologic pathology

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE; DOMOIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MELATONIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENOBARBITAL; SOMATOMEDIN C; TERFENADINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CELL DAMAGE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXCITOTOXICITY; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RETINA INJURY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHELLFISH POISONING; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE INJURY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHONDRIA ARMATA; MYTILUS EDULIS; PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 46349083031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md6020180     Document Type: Review

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