Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Salamander enthusiasts should be careful when seeking out these animals in the wild, since some of them are poisonous. There ...

The pharmacological activity of tetrodotoxin on various animals, their organs and tissues has been extensively studied, and it was found that tetrodotoxin strongly inhibits nerve conduction (27).

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 ...

A highly selective and sensitive method was developed for the determination of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in marine organisms by immunoaffinity chromatography (IAC) purification coupled with ultrahigh ...

Tetrodotoxin and its analogues are the causative toxins of pufferfish poisoning. Tetrodotoxin has been recently detected in bivalve mollusks collected in New Zealand and Europe, highlighting the need ...