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 ...

Pufferfish, including Takifugu rubripes, contain tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin that only occurs in the fish order Tetraodontiformes, which contains all puffers and other species that produce it.

Tetrodotoxin, the poison found in pufferfish, is an essential tool for neuroscience research, and a better technique to synthesise it could boost research into drugs that relieve pain ...

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 ...

From blue-ringed octopuses to stonefish, here are some of the most venomous, deadly species in our planet's oceans.

The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its deadly tetrodotoxin venom into the females to immobilise them during copulation, say researchers at the University of Queensland.

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.

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 ...