Tetrodotoxin
"Tetrodotoxin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An aminoperhydroquinazoline poison found mainly in the liver and ovaries of fishes in the order TETRAODONTIFORMES, which are eaten. The toxin causes paresthesia and paralysis through interference with neuromuscular conduction.
| Descriptor ID |
D013779
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.786.910 D23.946.580.910
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| Concept/Terms |
Tetrodotoxin- Tetrodotoxin
- Tetradotoxin
- Fugu Toxin
- Toxin, Fugu
- Tarichatoxin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tetrodotoxin" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Perissinotti PP, Rivero-Echeto MC, Garcia-Rill E, Bisagno V, Urbano FJ. Leptin alters somatosensory thalamic networks by decreasing gaba release from reticular thalamic nucleus and action potential frequency at ventrobasal neurons. Brain Struct Funct. 2018 Jun; 223(5):2499-2514.