| occurrence of toxins, other than paralysing type, in the skin of tetraodontiformes fish. | puffer fish (tetraodontidae and diodontidae) possess paralysing toxins (tetrodotoxin and analogues) that are secreted upon stimulation. in a previous work it was demonstrated that mucous secretion from the puffer fish sphoeroides spengleri, when mixed in sea water passing through the orobranchial cavity of groupers, induced cardiorespiratory alterations. in the present study, skin secretions from ciclichthys spinosus, s. spengleri and diodon hystrix were tested on crustacean nerves, sea urchin e ... | 1997 | 9028009 |
| tetrodotoxic poisoning from ingestion of a porcupine fish (diodon hystrix) in papua new guinea: nerve conduction studies. | near port moresby in papua new guinea, three of four adult family members who ate a porcupine fish (diodon hystrix) were severely poisoned. within one hour of the meal, both the mother and her older daughter had developed paraesthesiae, ataxia, hypersalivation, sweating, and had collapsed and died. the younger daughter developed similar symptoms with progressive paralysis requiring mechanical ventilation for 24 hr, but she made a complete recovery 10 days after the poisoning. in this patient, ne ... | 1997 | 9063357 |
| the ethnobiology of the haitian zombi. | for many years students of haitian society have suggested that there is an ethnopharmacological basis for the notorious zombies, the living dead of peasant folklore. the recent surfacing of three zombies, one of whom may represent the first potentially verifiable case, has focused scientific attention on the reported zombi drug. the formula of the poison was obtained at four widely separated localities in haiti. the consistent ingredients include one or more species of puffer fish (diodon hystri ... | 1983 | 6668953 |
| ultrastructural study of the spermatozoon of heterolebes maculosus (digenea, opistholebetidae), a parasite of the porcupinefish diodon hystrix (pisces, teleostei). | this paper describes the ultrastructure of the mature spermatozoon of heterolebes maculosus. it is the first study of this kind concerning the opistholebetidae (platyhelminthes, digenea). the ultrastructural elements observed in the spermatozoon are: two axonemes with 9+"1" pattern of trepaxonemata and their attachment zones, two mitochondria, a nucleus, cortical microtubules, external ornamentation of the plasma membrane and spine-like bodies. the number and the disposition of cortical microtub ... | 2010 | 20538071 |
| parasitosis of metabronema sp. (nematoda: cystidicolidae) in caribbean porcupinefish, diodon hystrix (l.). | | 2013 | 23534535 |