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    Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin. Ingestion of saxitoxin by humans, usually by consumption of shellfish...
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    These shellfish are filter feeders and accumulate neurotoxins, chiefly saxitoxin, produced by microscopic algae, such as dinoflagellates, diatoms, and...
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    Neosaxitoxin (redirect from Neo-saxitoxin)
    Neosaxitoxin (NSTX) is included, as other saxitoxin-analogs, in a broad group of natural neurotoxic alkaloids, commonly known as the paralytic shellfish...
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    dinoflagellates also produce saxitoxin. Saxitoxins bioaccumulate in shellfish and certain finfish. Ingestion of saxitoxin, usually through shellfish contaminated...
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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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    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 shell. Zosimus aeneus reaches a size of 60 by 90 millimetres...
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    Biotoxins accumulated in fish/shellfish include brevetoxins, okadaic acid, saxitoxins, ciguatoxin and domoic acid. Except for ciguatoxine, high levels of these...
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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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    release at the neuromuscular junction. The drug has been shown to reverse saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin toxicity in tissue and animal experiments. In calcium...
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    Ralfinamide Raxatrigine RG7893 (GDC-0287) Toxins: Conotoxins Neosaxitoxin Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin Zetekitoxin AB Others: Buprenorphine Evenamide Menthol (mint)...
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    a protected environment with plenty of nutrients for growth. TTX and saxitoxin provide good examples of convergent biochemical evolution: both toxins...
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    neurotoxin. ZTX is a guanidine alkaloid. It's structurally related to saxitoxin, but with some differences. ZTX contains an isoxazolidine ring, a sulfonate...
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    D. (2018-10-23). "The Acute Toxicity of Tetrodotoxin and Tetrodotoxin–Saxitoxin Mixtures to Mice by Various Routes of Administration". Toxins. 10 (11):...
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  • Zone Database, a compilation of information about the world's time zones Saxitoxin, a chemical weapon with designation TZ in the US military Sony Vaio TZ...
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    the presence of dangerous toxins: Tetrodotoxin and Saxitoxin in the tissues of the puffer. Saxitoxin is a neurotoxin that is one of many paralytic shellfish...
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    a class of poisons known as the saxitoxins, which are among the most toxic naturally produced substances. Saxitoxin poisoning begins with the blockage...
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    Ralfinamide Raxatrigine RG7893 (GDC-0287) Toxins: Conotoxins Neosaxitoxin Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin Zetekitoxin AB Others: Buprenorphine Evenamide Menthol (mint)...
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  • hogfish, king mackerel, and sea bass. Brevetoxin Domoic acid Okadaic acid Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin Swift AE, Swift TR (2008). "Ciguatera". Journal of Toxicology...
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  • HN2: Bis(2-chloroethyl)methylamine HN3: Tris(2-chloroethyl)amine Saxitoxin Ricin Novichok agents: Р-alkyl (H or ≤C10, incl. cycloalkyl) N-(1-(dialkyl(≤C10...
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    Program also had a microflechette to deliver either botulinum toxin A or saxitoxin, the M1 biodart, which resembled a 7.62 mm rifle cartridge. The USSR had...
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    Spider: Latrotoxin Alpha-latrotoxin CSTX Cupiennins PhTx3 Stromatoxin Vanillotoxin Huwentoxin Mollusca: Conotoxin Eledoisin Onchidal Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin...
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    are part of the group of saxitoxins, a large group of neurotoxins along with a molecule that is also referred to as saxitoxin (STX), neosaxitoxin (NSTX)...
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    an enzyme that converts saxitoxin into decarbamoylsaxitoxin, a capability that significantly reduces the quantity of saxitoxins present and that is not...
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    produced in dinoflagellate. DcSTX is one of the many analogues of saxitoxin (STX). Saxitoxin is a tricyclic alkaloid compound, which has multiple structural...
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    Ralfinamide Raxatrigine RG7893 (GDC-0287) Toxins: Conotoxins Neosaxitoxin Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin Zetekitoxin AB Others: Buprenorphine Evenamide Menthol (mint)...
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    Ralfinamide Raxatrigine RG7893 (GDC-0287) Toxins: Conotoxins Neosaxitoxin Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin Zetekitoxin AB Others: Buprenorphine Evenamide Menthol (mint)...
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    Spider: Latrotoxin Alpha-latrotoxin CSTX Cupiennins PhTx3 Stromatoxin Vanillotoxin Huwentoxin Mollusca: Conotoxin Eledoisin Onchidal Saxitoxin Tetrodotoxin...
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    request from the European Commission on Marine Biotoxins in Shellfish – Saxitoxin Group. The EFSA Journal (2009) 1019, 1-76. Keith, Lawrence H. (2015-03-15)...
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    Harbour. The term "red tide" refers to an accumulation of a toxin, such as saxitoxin, produced by marine algae. Filter-feeding shellfish are affected, such...
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