Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living things, including humans. Tetrodotoxin is most famously known from pufferfish — ...

Data=Ministry of Food and Drug Safety People who cooked and ate pufferfish themselves and showed symptoms of food poisoning caused by pufferfish poison were transferred to the hospital. According to ...

Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin that can be fatal to humans with just a two-milligram dose. “It's one of those things where a drop can kill 100 people,” Gabriel Somarriba, ...

Tetrodotoxin is used often in neuroscience labs to study how pain works at a cellular level. “It’s virtually an irreplaceable tool,” says Alasdair Gibb at University College London.

Tetrodotoxin is found throughout the octopuses' tissues, not just in specific venom glands, which makes these creatures among the few animals that are both poisonous and venomous. You may like ...

Researchers have discovered a concise way to synthesize a “biosynthetic and ecological enigma” that has intrigued chemists and biologists for more than a century: tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent ...

Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find. Octopus uses symbiotic bacteria to sequester the venom ...

Hammerhead tetrodotoxin, which disrupts neurons’ signaling to muscles, can sicken pets if they eat the worms, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Many damage-sensing neurons express tetrodotoxin (TTX)-resistant voltage-gated sodium channels. Here we examined the role of the sensory-neuron-specific (SNS) TTX-resistant sodium channel α ...

Hammerhead tetrodotoxin, which disrupts neurons' signaling to muscles, can sicken pets if they eat the worms, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.