Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B
Online ISSN : 1349-2896
Print ISSN : 0386-2208
ISSN-L : 0386-2208
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Chemistry, etiology, and food chain dynamics of marine toxins
Takeshi YASUMOTO
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2005 Volume 81 Issue 2 Pages 43-51

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Highly complex chemical structures of marine natural toxins involved in seafood poisoning were determined using small samples. The biogenetic process by which the toxins accumulate in fish and shellfish was explained by the food chain. The primary sources of the toxins were identified as dinoflagellates, bacteria, and blue-green algae. The topics related to ciguatera, puffer fish, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, azaspiracid poisoning, red tides, and Gracilaria red alga poisoning are described.


(Communicated by Saburo TAMURA, M.J.A.)

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