Yessotoxins, a group of marine polyether toxins: An overview

Marine Drugs

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 73-102

  Paz, Beatriz ^a,b   Daranas, Antonio H ^c   Norte, Manuel ^c   Riobó, Pilar ^a,b   Franco, José M ^a,b   Fernández, José J ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^b Instituto Español de Oceanografía Subida a Radio Faro   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP); Gonyaulax spinifera; Lingulodinium polyedrum; Marine polyether toxin; Protoceratium reticulatum; Yessotoxin (YTX)

Indexed keywords

MARINE TOXIN; OKADAIC ACID; POLYETHER; YESSOTOXIN;

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; DINOFLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GONYAULAX SPINIFERA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTOXICATION; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSSEL; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATINOPECTEN YESSOENSIS; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM; REVIEW; SCALLOP; SHELLFISH; SHELLFISH POISONING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; GONYAULAX SPINIFERA; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; MIZUHOPECTEN YESSOENSIS; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM;

EID: 46349108893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md6020073     Document Type: Review

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