Background: From January 2002 to May 2004, 28 puffer fish poisoning (PFP) cases in Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York were linked to the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) in Florida. Saxitoxins (STXs ...

USGS wildlife biologist Sarah Schoen surveys the water for fish samples to test for saxitoxin. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Mears) Paralytic shellfish poisoning, caused by eating seafood contaminated with ...

A new study headed by Professor Fernando Rozario-Ortiz will unveil a new chapter into the research on saxitoxin, the cyanotoxin responsible for the illness known as paralytic shellfish poisoning. The ...

Florida-based chemists are developing a sensor with which fish farmers and conservationists might spot the poison that flourishing algae produce in coastal waters. They have found a compound that ...

TETRODOTOXIN and saxitoxin are neurotoxins with very similar biological actions, though they are chemically distinct. Tetrodotoxin reduces the amplitude of the end plate potential elicited by neural ...

University of Maine marine scientist Laurie Connell isn't one to brag: she would rather talk about the potential of her current research than the popularity of what she has published in the past.

JAMESPORT, N.Y. – Hundreds of small turtles have washed up dead on the eastern end of Long Island in the last month, a die-off scientists blame on waterborne toxins that have reached unprecedented ...

Hold up, Pasco County scallopers. Your season has been paused, for now. Officials with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Wednesday that the agency was temporarily shutting ...

Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the electrical signals that nerve cells (neurons) use to activate muscle, and ...

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