Length is associated with pain: Jellyfish with painful sting have longer nematocyst tubules than harmless jellyfish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Kitatani, Ryuju ^a   Yamada, Mayu ^a   Kamio, Michiya ^a   Nagai, Hiroshi ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AURELIA AURITA; CARYBDEA BREVIPEDALIA; CHIRONEX YAMAGUCHII; CHRYSAORA; CHRYSAORA PACIFICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HARMLESS JELLYFISH; INFLAMMATION; JELLYFISH; JELLYFISH STING; NEMATOCYST; NEMATOCYST TUBULE LENGTH; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN RECEPTOR; POISONOUS JELLYFISH; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN PENETRATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE INJURY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; PAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COELENTERATE VENOM;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; NEMATOCYST; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; SCYPHOZOA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84942847847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135015     Document Type: Article

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