Ciguatera incidence and fish toxicity in Okinawa, Japan

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 656-661

  Oshiro, Naomasa ^a,b   Yogi, Kentaro ^a,c   Asato, Shuko ^a,c   Sasaki, Toshiki ^d   Tamanaha, Koji ^a   Hirama, Masahiro ^c,e   Yasumoto, Takeshi ^f   Inafuku, Yasuo ^a  

^a OKINAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Lab Minamata Environ Res/Dev C   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciguatera; Ciguatoxin; Fish; Incidence; Mouse bioassay; Okinawa; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CIGUATOXIN; CIGUATOXIN 1B; CIGUATOXIN 3C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CIGUATERA; COASTAL WATERS; EPIDEMIC; EPINEPHELUS FUSCOGUTTATUS; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUTJANUS ARGENTIMACULATUS; LUTJANUS BOHAR; LUTJANUS MONOSTIGMA; LUTJANUS RUSSELLII; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VARIOLA ALBIMARGINATA; VARIOLA LOUTI;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CIGUATERA POISONING; CIGUATOXINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FISHES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CARANX IGNOBILIS; CIGUATERA; EPINEPHELUS FUSCOGUTTATUS; EPINEPHELUS POLYPHEKADION; LUTJANUS; LUTJANUS ARGENTIMACULATUS; LUTJANUS BOHAR; LUTJANUS MONOSTIGMA; LUTJANUS RUSSELLII; MURAENIDAE; OPLEGNATHUS PUNCTATUS; PLECTROPOMUS AREOLATUS; VARIOLA ALBIMARGINATA; VARIOLA LOUTI;

EID: 77954228060     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.05.036     Document Type: Article

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