An updated review of tetrodotoxin and its peculiarities

P Katikou, C Gokbulut, AR Kosker, M Campàs… - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a crystalline, weakly basic, colorless organic substance and is one of
the most potent marine toxins known. Although TTX was first isolated from pufferfish, it has …

Alternative methods for the detection of emerging marine toxins: Biosensors, biochemical assays and cell-based assays

L Reverté, L Soliño, O Carnicer, J Diogène, M Campàs - Marine drugs, 2014 - mdpi.com
The emergence of marine toxins in water and seafood may have a considerable impact on
public health. Although the tendency in Europe is to consolidate, when possible, official …

Risks for public health related to the presence of tetrodotoxin (TTX) and TTX analogues in marine bivalves and gastropods

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) and its analogues are produced by marine bacteria and have been
detected in marine bivalves and gastropods from European waters. The European …

Hybrid antibody–aptamer assay for detection of tetrodotoxin in pufferfish

X Shkembi, V Skouridou, M Svobodova… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The marine toxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) poses a great risk to public health safety due to its
severe paralytic effects after ingestion. Seafood poisoning caused by the consumption of …

Tetrodotoxin and the state-of-the-art progress of its associated analytical methods

W Mi, S Liu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tetrodotoxin (TTX), which is found in various marine organisms, including pufferfish,
shellfish, shrimp, crab, marine gastropods, and gobies, is an effective marine toxin and the …

Emerging marine biotoxins in seafood from European coasts: Incidence and analytical challenges

P Estevez, D Castro, A Pequeño-Valtierra, J Giraldez… - Foods, 2019 - mdpi.com
The presence of emerging contaminants in food and the sources of the contamination are
relevant issues in food safety. The impact of climate change on these contaminations is a …

Detection of tetrodotoxins in juvenile pufferfish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) from the North Aegean Sea (Greece) by an electrochemical magnetic bead …

S Leonardo, S Kiparissis, M Rambla-Alegre, S Almarza… - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Two small Lagocephalus sceleratus juveniles were captured in picarel targeting catches
from North Aegean Sea (Greece) in the autumn of 2017. An electrochemical immunosensing …

Detection of tetrodotoxins in puffer fish by a self-assembled monolayer-based immunoassay and comparison with surface plasmon resonance, LC-MS/MS, and mouse …

L Reverté, P de la Iglesia, V Del Río… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The increasing occurrence of puffer fish containing tetrodotoxin (TTX) in the Mediterranean
could represent a major food safety risk for European consumers and threaten the fishing …

Marine tetrodotoxin as a risk for human health

A Madejska, M Michalski, J Osek - Journal of veterinary research, 2019 - sciendo.com
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a toxin mainly occurring naturally in contaminated puffer fish, which are
a culinary delicacy in Japan. It is also detected in various marine organisms like globefish …

Application of novel nanomaterials for chemo-and biosensing of algal toxins in shellfish and water

X Wu, L Hou, X Lin, Z **e - Novel Nanomaterials for Biomedical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Algal toxins represent a significant threat to water environment and human health around
the world. The expanding role of chemo-and biosensing in rapid detection of algal toxins …