Marine Toxins: Essentials

Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: New Advances and Future Challenges by Ana M. Cameán andAngeles Jos (Eds.)

Marine and Freshwater Toxins by P. Gopalakrishnakone (Editor); Vidal Haddad (Editor); William R. Kem (Editor); Euikyung Kim (Editor); Aurelia Tubaro (Editor) This book presents the structure of the main toxins of aquatic origin, their distribution, producing species and vectors, their mechanisms of action, the clinical aspects of envenomation in humans, their effects in laboratory or wild animals, their toxicokinetic properties, including the relevant treatment, detection methods and regulatory aspects for management. The work also presents the main species associated with the injuries, poisonings their toxins, mechanism of action and the clinical aspects of the envenomations by aquatic animals and discusses the actual measures utilized in the first aid and hospital treatments. Marine toxins such as palytoxins, brevetoxins, saxitoxin, ciguatoxins, okadaic acid, azaspiracid toxins, equinatoxins are also dealt with in this volume. These toxins can be lethal as well as having a complex and large molecular structure and display mechanisms by which they act very specifically on targets, receptors or on critical body proteins.