Tetrodotoxin poisoning due to smooth-backed blowfish lagocephalus inermis and toxicity of L. inermis cught off the Kyushu coast Japan

Journal of the Food Hygienic Society of Japan

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-90

  Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Kadoyama, Keisuke ^a   Ishizaki, Shoichiro ^a   Taniyama, Shigeto ^b   Takatani, Tomohiro ^b   Arakawa, Osamu ^b   Terayama, Makoto ^c  

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

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Miyazaki Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dna species identification; Puffer fish poisoning; Puffer fish toxin; Smooth backed blowfish lagocephalus inermis; Tetrodotoxin; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

DNA; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD POISONING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

ANIMALS; DNA; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TETRODOTOXIN;

LAGOCEPHALUS INERMIS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 84861123863     PISSN: 00156426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3358/shokueishi.53.85     Document Type: Article

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