| identification of tetrodotoxin and fish species in a dried dressed fish fillet implicated in food poisoning. | there were five victims of neurotoxic food poisoning from a dried dressed fish fillet in changhua county, taiwan, in february 2000. the toxicity of the dried dressed fish fillets was 243 mouse units per g according to a tetrodotoxin bioassay. the partially purified toxin was identified as tetrodotoxin and anhydrotetrodotoxin. the sequence of the 376-nucleotide region in the cytochrome b gene of the mitochondrial dna exhibited the same genotype as that of the toxic puffer fish lagocephalus lunari ... | 2002 | 11848573 |
| two new species of lepocreadiid trematodes of marine fishes from the taiwan straits, china. | two new species of lepocreadiid trematodes are reported from marine fishes from the taiwan straits, china: diploproctodaeum spinosus n. sp. from the intestine of takifugu oblongus (= fugu oblongus) and preptetos parapristipomae n. sp. from parapristipoma trilineatum. diploproctodaeum spinosus differs from the known species of diploproctodaeum, with 1 spine at the base of the ejaculatory duct. preptetos parapristipomae is most similar to preptetos rotto in having an entire ovary but differs from ... | 2002 | 12099427 |
| determination of tetrodotoxin and its analogs in the puffer fish takifugu oblongus from bangladesh by hydrophilic interaction chromatography and mass-spectrometric detection. | tetrodotoxin (ttx) and its analogs (ttxs), widely distributed among marine as well as terrestrial animals, induce dangerous intoxications. these highly potential toxins are also known as the causative agent of puffer fish poisoning. a newly developed highly sensitive method for determination of ttxs based on hydrophilic interaction chromatography and mass-spectrometric detection is presented. ttx, anhydrotetrodotoxin, 11-deoxytetrodotoxin and trideoxytetrodotoxin were determined in separated tis ... | 2007 | 17899030 |