Ciguatoxin: Isolation and Chemical Nature
- 10 March 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3767) , 1267-1268
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1267
Abstract
Ciguatoxin, the agent responsible for ciguatera, a disease produced in humans from ingestion of certain fishes, has been isolated from specimens of the moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus. The toxin is apparently a lipid containing quaternary nitrogen, hydroxyl, and carbonyl functions.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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