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Paralytic shellfish toxins – Call for uniform reporting units
- Source :
- Toxicon. 178:59-60
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are a group of over 50 closely related naturally occurring tetrahydropurine toxins with saxitoxin (STX) as one of the most common and potent. Saxitoxin was first isolated and characterised from the butter clam Saxidomus giganteus as the dihydrochloride salt (Schantz et al., 1975). It is traded as a stand-alone reference material, or included in diagnostic test kits, mainly as the dihydrochloride salt or diacetate salt. This is primarily due to the saxitoxin hydrate (free base) form having poor stability. However, the certificate of analysis for various reference materials may state the concentration as either the salt or free base equivalent, and care must be taken to ensure the value is traceable and used correctly in subsequent calculations.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
reporting units
paralytic shellfish toxins
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
medicine
Animals
Humans
Shellfish Poisoning
Shellfish
Saxidomus
Saxitoxin
0303 health sciences
research
Chromatography
biology
Chemistry
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
030302 biochemistry & molecular biology
Diagnostic test
regulation
Mandatory Reporting
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Shellfish poisoning
Marine Toxins
laboratory analysis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00410101
- Volume :
- 178
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Toxicon
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d8bface24b0f07f4e84269b4acc50f7