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Saxitoxin (STX) is a
potent neurotoxin and the best-known
paralytic s****fish
toxin (PST).
Ingestion of
saxitoxin by humans,
usually by
consumption of...
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These s****fish are
filter feeders and ac****ulate neurotoxins,
chiefly saxitoxin,
produced by
microscopic algae, such as dinoflagellates, diatoms, and...
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Neosaxitoxin (NSTX) is included, as
other saxitoxin-analogs, in a
broad group of
natural neurotoxic alkaloids,
commonly known as the
paralytic s****fish...
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dinoflagellates also
produce saxitoxin.
Saxitoxins bioac****ulate in s****fish and
certain finfish.
Ingestion of
saxitoxin,
usually through s****fish contaminated...
- alkaloid. It's
structurally related to
saxitoxin, but with some differences. ZTX has a
guanidine core
similar to
saxitoxin. It
contains an
isoxazolidine ring...
- it with them. The
Central Intelligence Agency began experimenting with
saxitoxin, an
extremely potent neurotoxin,
during the 1950s as a
replacement for...
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potentially lethal due to the
presence of the
neurotoxins tetrodotoxin and
saxitoxin in its
flesh and s****.
Zosimus aeneus reaches a size of 60 by 90 millimetres...
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through this
channel (which is
ultimately necessary for
nerve conduction).
Saxitoxin, neosaxitoxin, and
several of the
conotoxins also bind the same site....
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Hemiaminal formation is a key step in an
asymmetric total synthesis of
saxitoxin: In this
reaction step the
alkene group is
first oxidized to an intermediate...
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Biotoxins ac****ulated in fish/s****fish
include brevetoxins,
okadaic acid,
saxitoxins,
ciguatoxin and
domoic acid.
Except for ciguatoxine, high
levels of these...
