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Título del libro: Seafood And Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology, Physiology, And Detection, Second Edition
Título del capítulo: Maitotoxin: A unique pharmacological tool for elucidating Ca 2+ -dependent mechanisms

Autores UNAM:
CLAUDIA LYDIA TREVIÑO SANTA CRUZ; LEONILA IRMA LAURA ESCOBAR PEREZ; LUIS ALFONSO VACA DOMINGUEZ; VERONICA MORALES TLALPAN; ALBERTO DARSZON ISRAEL;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2008
Resumen:

In the beginnings of the fourteenth century, some sailors traveling across the Atlantic Ocean became sick after eating sh, even if they were fresh. Upon other neurological disorders, some of these sailors felt an inversion of thermal sense, a characteristic symptom named ?dry ice sensation.? Upon touching the cold seawater, the sailor would feel as if he was receiving an electric shock. This mode of poisoning was later called ?ciguatera? after cigua, a snail commonly occurring in the Caribbean Sea [1,2]. However, most of the neurological symptoms of ciguatera are due to ciguatoxin (CTX), a very potent brevetoxin-type polyether compound [3,4]. © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.


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