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Pufferfish are famous for containing one of the most potent natural toxins known: tetrodotoxin. But what would happen if a massive whale swallowed a poisonous pufferfish? This video dives into the ...

In Japan, puffer fish is considered a delicacy, but the tickle to the taste buds comes with a tickle to the nerves: fugu contains tetrodotoxin, a strong nerve toxin. In low doses, tetrodotoxin is ...

The neurotoxin tetrodotoxin has been found for the first time in two species living out of water. Tetrodotoxin is a potent paralysis-inducing neurotoxin found in a multitude of aquatic organisms, but ...

Opioids remain a mainstay of treatment for chronic and surgical pain, despite their side effects and risk for addiction and overdose. While conventional local anesthetics block pain very effectively, ...

Some newts living in the western United States are poisonous, perhaps thanks to bacteria living on their skin. Tetrodotoxin, or TTX, prevents nerve cells from sending signals that tell muscles to move ...

The Ministry of Fisheries has issued a public health warning urging Fijians to be extremely cautious when consuming reef fish ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jan. 15, 1992), pp. 554-558 (5 pages) The principal voltage-sensitive sodium channel from human heart ...

Tetrodotoxin (3 $\times $ 10$^{-8}$ molar) promoted the release of thiamine from perfused rat and frog nerve preparations in a manner similar to other neuroactive drugs. When the rats were injected ...