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- Title
Progress in Marine Toxins.
- Authors
LI Yong; YANG Yan; SHI Qing-wen; DONG Mei
- Abstract
A number of marine toxins with diverse structures and a wide array of fascinating bioactivities have been isolated from marine organism. Progress in the studies of marine toxins was summarized, including puffer fish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, azaspiracid shellfish poisoning, hepatotoxic shellfish poisoning, amnesic shellfish poisoning, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, ciguatoxin and miscellaneous marine toxins. Marine toxins play a dominant role in the discovery of useful leads for the development of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of diverse diseases like cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and central nervous system diseases and so on and also serve as useful tools to exploring biological sciences. Total 67 structures and 70 references were provided.
- Subjects
MARINE toxins; MOLECULAR structure; BIOACTIVE compounds; MARINE metabolites; PISCICIDES; PARALYTIC shellfish poisoning; AMNESIC shellfish poisoning
- Publication
Natural Product Research & Development, 2011, Vol 23, Issue 3, p582
- ISSN
1001-6880
- Publication type
Article