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Tetrodotoxin levels of three pufferfish species (Lagocephalus sp.) caught in the North-Eastern Mediterranean sea
- Source :
- Chemosphere. 219:95-99
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- PubMedID: 30529858 Tetrodotoxin (TTX) levels in Lagocephalus sceleratus (Silverstripe blaasop), Lagocephalus spadiceus (Half-smooth golden pufferfish) and Lagocephalus suezensis (Suez puffer) caught in Mersin Bay in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea were analysed using Q-TOF LC/MS. Pufferfish were caught using trawl fishing, longlining and fishing line from December 2015 to October 2016. The TTX changes in the gonads, livers, intestines, skins and muscle tissues were evaluated according to sex and season. TTX levels for L. sceleratus and L. suezensis for all tissues were in the range of 0.69–35.6 µg/g and 0.67–3.09 µg/g, respectively. The highest TTX levels were observed in the gonads of female L. sceleratus caught in the autumn, and in the skin of L. suezensis caught in the spring but no quantifiable levels of TTX were found for L. spadiceus. In conclusion, L. sceleratus and L. suezensis species caught in the North-Eastern Mediterranean are toxic, and their consumption is unsafe. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd TOVAG-115O679 This research was financially supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK); TOVAG-115O679 . We would like to thank graphic designer Yeter MERCAN for the support for the preparation of the Graphical Abstract.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
0208 environmental biotechnology
ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species
Fishing
Lagocephalus sceleratus
Zoology
Pufferfish
Tetrodotoxin
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Fishing line
chemistry.chemical_compound
Mediterranean sea
Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Lagocephalus sp
Mediterranean Sea
Animals
Humans
Environmental Chemistry
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Lagocephalus
biology
Tetraodontiformes
ved/biology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
General Chemistry
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Q-TOF LC/MS
020801 environmental engineering
chemistry
Female
Marine toxins
Marine toxin
Bay
Chromatography, Liquid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00456535
- Volume :
- 219
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemosphere
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....efe53fe9fe01b74a4c778e590759c584