Neurotoxic alkaloids: Saxitoxin and its analogs

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2185-2211

  Wiese, Maria ^a   D'Agostino, Paul M ^b   Mihali, Troco K ^a   Moffitt, Michelle C ^b   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkaloid analogs; Neurotoxins; Paralytic shellfish poisoning; Paralytic shellfish toxins; PSP; PSTs; Saxitoxin; STX

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BUPIVACAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GONYAUTOXIN; GONYAUTOXIN 1; GONYAUTOXIN 4; GONYAUTOXIN 5; GONYAUTOXIN 6; GONYAUTOXIN II; GONYAUTOXIN III; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEOSAXITOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; SAXITOXIN; SHELLFISH TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZETEKITOXIN AB;

ANUS FISSURE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; FATALITY; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SHELLFISH POISONING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ALEXANDRIUM; ANABAENA; APHANIZOMENON; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; GYMNODINIUM; INVERTEBRATA; LYNGBYA; PLANKTOTHRIX; PROKARYOTA; PYRODINIUM;

EID: 77955299705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8072185     Document Type: Review

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