Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, WP Hu, MHG Munro… - Natural product …, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2006. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2007, 24, 31 This review covers the
literature published in 2006 for marine natural products, with 758 citations (534 for the …

Marine toxins: Chemistry, toxicity, occurrence and detection, with special reference to the Dutch situation

A Gerssen, IE Pol-Hofstad, M Poelman, PPJ Mulder… - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Various species of algae can produce marine toxins under certain circumstances. These
toxins can then accumulate in shellfish such as mussels, oysters and scallops. When these …

Marine bioactives: Pharmacological properties and potential applications against inflammatory diseases

N D'Orazio, MA Gammone, E Gemello, M De Girolamo… - Marine drugs, 2012 - mdpi.com
Inflammation is a hot topic in medical research, because it plays a key role in inflammatory
diseases: rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other forms of arthritis, diabetes, heart diseases …

Update on Methodologies Available for Ciguatoxin Determination: Perspectives to Confront the Onset of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Europe

A Caillaud, P De la Iglesia, HT Darius, S Pauillac… - Marine Drugs, 2010 - mdpi.com
Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) occurs mainly when humans ingest finfish contaminated with
ciguatoxins (CTXs). The complexity and variability of such toxins have made it difficult to …

Ciguatera mini review: 21st century environmental challenges and the interdisciplinary research efforts rising to meet them

CR Loeffler, L Tartaglione, M Friedemann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Globally, the livelihoods of over a billion people are affected by changes to marine
ecosystems, both structurally and systematically. Resources and ecosystem services …

Aptamers and aptasensors for highly specific recognition and sensitive detection of marine biotoxins: recent advances and perspectives

L Zhao, Y Huang, Y Dong, X Han, S Wang, X Liang - Toxins, 2018 - mdpi.com
Marine biotoxins distribute widely, have high toxicity, and can be easily accumulated in
water or seafood, exposing a serious threat to consumer health. Achieving specific and …

Voltage-gated sodium channels in neurological disorders

M Chahine, A Chatelier, O Babich… - CNS & Neurological …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Voltage-gated sodium channels play an essential biophysical role in many excitable cells
such as neurons. They transmit electrical signals through action potential (AP) generation …

An improved functional assay for rapid detection of marine toxins, saxitoxin and brevetoxin using a portable cardiomyocyte-based potential biosensor

Q Wang, J Fang, D Cao, H Li, K Su, N Hu… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Saxitoxin (STX) and brevetoxin (PbTX-2), which are produced by marine dinoflagellates, are
highly-toxic marine toxins targeting separate sites of the α subunit of voltage-dependent …

Antimicrobial activity of the marine alkaloids, clathrodin and oroidin, and their synthetic analogues

N Zidar, S Montalvão, Ž Hodnik, DA Nawrot, A Žula… - Marine drugs, 2014 - mdpi.com
Marine organisms produce secondary metabolites that may be valuable for the development
of novel drug leads as such and can also provide structural scaffolds for the design and …

[HTML][HTML] Global diversity of enterococci and description of 18 novel species

JA Schwartzman, F Lebreton, R Salamzade, MJ Martin… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Enterococci are commensal gut microbes of most land animals. They diversified over
hundreds of millions of years adapting to evolving hosts and host diets. Of over 60 known …