Identity of Tarichatoxin and Tetrodotoxin

31 January 1964

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 143 (3605) , 474-475
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.143.3605.474

Abstract

Tarichatoxin (C₁₁H₁₇N₃O₈), a potent neurotoxin recently isolated in pure form from the eggs of the California newt, Taricha torosa, has been found to be identical to tetrodotoxin from the ovaries of Sphoeroides rubripes, the Japanese Fugu or puffer fish. As yet this substance has been detected only in a single family of fish, Tetraodontidae, and in a single family of amphibia, Salamandridae.

Keywords

CHEMISTRY
FISHES
SALAMANDERS
TOXINS AND ANTITOXINS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Tarichatoxin: Isolation and Purification
Science, 1963
Untersuchungen der Eierstockextrakte von Kugelfischen. XI. Uber Tetrodotoxin.(2)
CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 1960