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170 relations: Aconitine, Aconitum, Aconitum carmichaelii, Aconitum coreanum, Aconitum napellus, Action potential, Adamantane, Amphibian, Antillatoxin, APETx1, Apparent death, Arothron reticularis, Arothron stellatus, Astropecten polyacanthus, Astropecten scoparius, Atelopus chiriquiensis, Atelopus varius, Atergatis floridus, Atergatis roseus, Batrachotoxin, Behavioral neuroscience, Biological agent, Biosecurity in the United States, Bipalium, Bipalium adventitium, Bipalium kewense, Black-blotched porcupinefish, Blackspotted puffer, Blue-ringed octopus, Bokor, Brevetoxin, California newt, Canthigaster tyleri, Carbon, Case Closed (season 9), CB military symbol, Cephalopod attack, Cerebral organoid, CgNa toxin, Chaetognatha, Channel blocker, Chuck Versus the Predator, Ciguatoxin, Clairvius Narcisse, Common garter snake, Common toadfish, Cyclichthys, De novo protein synthesis theory of memory formation, Diodon, Discography of the Resident Evil video game series, ..., Dolphin, Dugway Proving Ground, Eastern newt, End-plate potential, Epibatidine, Evolution, Evolutionary arms race, Fahaka pufferfish, Fish as food, Food contaminant, Foodborne illness, Fresh Bones, Fugu, Garter snake, Goniopora toxin, Grass puffer, Greater blue-ringed octopus, GTx1-15, Hainantoxin, Harry Stone Mosher, Hello Again (1987 film), Hitoshi Okamura, Horseshoe crab, Huwentoxin, Index of biochemistry articles, Ion channel, Japanese fire belly newt, Jingzhaotoxin, John Wilson Moore, Killing of animals, Lagocephalus sceleratus, Lagocephalus spadiceus, List of biomolecules, List of chemical warfare agents, List of fictional toxins, List of investigational analgesics, List of Japanese ingredients, List of Lost Tapes episodes, List of MeSH codes (D03), List of MeSH codes (D23), List of venomous animals, Liver (food), Local anesthetic, Lysinibacillus fusiformis, Mangrove horseshoe crab, Map puffer, Mariko Yashida, Masayuki Kawamura, Median lethal dose, Molecular neuroscience, Nav1.5, Nav1.7, Nav1.8, Nav1.9, Neurotoxin, Newt, Nisoxetine, Ocean sunfish, Octopus, Ocular dominance column, Okadaic acid, Pahutoxin, Panamanian golden frog, Pao suvattii, Pao turgidus, Paralysis, Pleurobranchaea maculata, Poisonous fish, Porcupinefish, Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis, Quinidine, Red Sea species hazardous to humans, Red-bellied newt, Reicheltia halsteadi, Remora, Retinal waves, Riluzole, Rough-skinned newt, S100A10, Saddleback toad, Salamander, Sashimi, Saxitoxin, Secondary metabolite, Select agent, Shewanella algae, Sierra newt, Smooth toadfish, Sodium channel blocker, Spot-fin porcupinefish, Spotbase burrfish, Starfish, Sushi, Synaptic scaling, Takifugu, Takifugu poecilonotus, Takifugu rubripes, Taricha, Tectin (drug), Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontiformes, The Riddle of the Sphinx (Inside No. 9), The Serpent and the Rainbow (book), Toshio Narahashi, Toxinology, Triturus, TTX, Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrionaceae, Wade Davis (anthropologist), Wildlife of Alaska, Xanthidae, Xenobiotic, Yoshimasa Hirata, Yoshito Kishi, Zetekitoxin AB, Zombie, Zosimus aeneus, 1000 Ways to Die (season 1), 4-Aminopyridine. Expand index (120 more) »
Aconitine
Aconitine is an alkaloid toxin produced by the Aconitum plant, also known as devil's helmet or monkshood.
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Aconitum
Aconitum, commonly known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, queen of poisons, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Aconitum carmichaelii
Aconitum carmichaelii syn. A. fischeri, is a species of flowering plant of the genus Aconitum, family Ranunculaceae.
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Aconitum coreanum
Aconitum coreanum, known as Korean monk's hood, Korean monkshood, is one of the species of Aconitum.
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Aconitum napellus
Aconitum napellus (monk's-hood, aconite, wolfsbane) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aconitum of the family Ranunculaceae, native and endemic to western and central Europe.
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Action potential
In physiology, an action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific axon location rapidly rises and falls: this depolarisation then causes adjacent locations to similarly depolarise.
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Adamantane
Adamantane is a colorless, crystalline chemical compound with a camphor-like odor.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Antillatoxin
Antillatoxin (ATX) is a potent lipopeptide neurotoxin produced by the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.
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APETx1
APETx1 is a peptide toxin from the venom of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima.
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Apparent death
Apparent death, colloquially known as playing dead, feigning death, or playing possum, is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead.
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Arothron reticularis
Arothron reticularis, variously known as the reticulated pufferfish, reticulated blowfish or reticulated toadfish, is a ray-finned fish in the family Tetraodontidae.
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Arothron stellatus
Arothron stellatus, also known as the stellate puffer, starry puffer, or starry toadfish, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.
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Astropecten polyacanthus
Astropecten polyacanthus, the sand sifting starfish or comb sea star, is a sea star of the family Astropectinidae. It is the most widespread species in the genus Astropecten, found throughout the Indo-Pacific region. The armspread is up to. The specific epithet "polyacanthus" comes from the Latin meaning "many thorned". JulianRocks.net. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
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Astropecten scoparius
Astropecten scoparius is a sea star in the family Astropectinidae.
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Atelopus chiriquiensis
Atelopus chiriquiensis, the Chiriqui harlequin frog or Lewis' stubfoot toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae found in the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica and western Panama (Province and Bocas del Toro Provinces).
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Atelopus varius
Atelopus varius (Costa Rican variable harlequin toad), also known as the clown frog, is a neo-tropical true toad from the family Bufonidae (Crump 1986).
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Atergatis floridus
Atergatis floridus, the floral egg crab, green egg crab or shawl crab, is a species of tropical Indo-Pacific crab from the family Xanthidae.
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Atergatis roseus
Atergatis roseus, the rosy egg crab, is a species of reef crab from the family Xanthidae with a natural range extending from the Red Sea to Fiji.
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Batrachotoxin
Batrachotoxin (BTX) is an extremely potent cardiotoxic and neurotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in certain species of frogs (poison dart frog), melyrid beetles, and birds (the pitohui, blue-capped ifrit, and little shrikethrush).
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Behavioral neuroscience
Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology, Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary is the application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals.
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Biological agent
A biological agent—also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biological warfare agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon—is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus that can be used purposefully as a weapon in bioterrorism or biological warfare (BW).
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Biosecurity in the United States
This is a list of biosecurity threats to the United States.
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Bipalium
Bipalium is a genus of large predatory land planarians.
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Bipalium adventitium
Bipalium adventitium, often referred to as the "landchovy", is a land planarian in the subfamily Bipaliinae.
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Bipalium kewense
Bipalium kewense is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution.
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Black-blotched porcupinefish
The black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus), also known as shortspine porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae.
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Blackspotted puffer
The blackspotted puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus), also known as the dog-faced puffer, is a tropical marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.
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Blue-ringed octopus
Blue-ringed octopuses, comprising the genus Hapalochlaena, are four highly venomous species of octopus that are found in tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia.
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Bokor
A bokor (male) or caplata (female) is a Vodou witch for hire who is said to serve the loa 'with both hands', practicing for both good and evil.
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Brevetoxin
Brevetoxin (PbTx), or brevetoxins, are a suite of cyclic polyether compounds produced naturally by a species of dinoflagellate known as Karenia brevis.
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California newt
The California newt or orange-bellied newt (Taricha torosa), is a species of newt endemic to California, in the Western United States.
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Canthigaster tyleri
Canthigaster tyleri, also known as Tyler's toby, is a species of marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae.
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Carbon
Carbon (from carbo "coal") is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6.
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Case Closed (season 9)
The ninth season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.
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CB military symbol
Chemical, biological (CB) — and sometimes radiological — warfare agents were assigned what is termed a military symbol by the U.S. military until the American chemical and biological weapons programs were terminated (in 1990 and 1969, respectively).
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Cephalopod attack
Various accounts of cephalopod attacks on humans have been reported since the 13th century.
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Cerebral organoid
A cerebral organoid describes artificially grown, in vitro, miniature organs resembling the brain.
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CgNa toxin
CgNa is a peptide toxin isolated from the sea anemone Condylactis gigantea.
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Chaetognatha
Chaetognatha, meaning bristle-jaws, and commonly known as arrow worms, is a phylum of predatory marine worms which are a major component of plankton worldwide.
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Channel blocker
A channel blocker is the biological mechanism in which a particular molecule is used to prevent the opening of ion channels in order to produce a physiological response in a cell.
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Chuck Versus the Predator
"Chuck Versus the Predator" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of Chuck.
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Ciguatoxin
Chemical structure of the ciguatoxin '''CTX1B''' Ciguatoxins are a class of toxic polycyclic polyethers found in fish that cause ciguatera.
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Clairvius Narcisse
Clairvius Narcisse (January 2, 1922 – 1964) was a Haitian man said to have been turned into a zombie by a Haitian vodou preparation, purportedly a combination of psychoactive substances (oftentimes the paralyzing pufferfish venom tetrodotoxin and the strong deliriant Datura).
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Common garter snake
The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a species of natricine snake, which is indigenous to North America and found widely across the continent.
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Common toadfish
The common toadfish (Tetractenos hamiltoni), also known as the common toado, toadfish or toado, (formerly classified as Tetrodon hamiltoniG.S. Hardy, "Revision of Australian species of Torquigener Whitley (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and two new generic names for Australian puffer fishes," Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 13, No. 1/2, 1983, pp. 1–48. or Torquigener hamiltoni) is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae of order Tetraodontiformes, found along Australia's eastern coast, from northern Queensland to Flinders Island, and around Lord Howe Island, as well as in New Zealand waters.
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Cyclichthys
Cyclicthys is a genus of the family Diodontidae, are usually known as Swelltoads.
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De novo protein synthesis theory of memory formation
The de novo protein synthesis theory of memory formation is a hypothesis about the formation of the physical correlates of memory in the brain.
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Diodon
Porcupinefishes or balloonfishes, are any of the various species of the genus Diodon, the type genus of Diodontidae.
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Discography of the Resident Evil video game series
This is a discography for Resident Evil/Biohazard.
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Dolphin
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.
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Dugway Proving Ground
Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and 13 miles south of the 2,624 sq mi Utah Test and Training Range forming the largest overland special use airspace in the United States.
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Eastern newt
The eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) is a common newt of eastern North America.
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End-plate potential
End plate potentials (EPPs) are the depolarizations of skeletal muscle fibers caused by neurotransmitters binding to the postsynaptic membrane in the neuromuscular junction.
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Epibatidine
Epibatidine is a putative alkaloid that is secreted by the Ecuadoran frog Epipedobates anthonyi.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolutionary arms race
In evolutionary biology, an evolutionary arms race is a struggle between competing sets of co-evolving genes, traits, or species, that develop adaptations and counter-adaptations against each other, resembling an arms race.
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Fahaka pufferfish
The fahaka pufferfish (from Arabic: فهقة), also known as the Nile puffer, globe fish, lineatus puffer (Tetraodon lineatus), is a tropical freshwater pufferfish found in the upper Nile, Chad, Senegal, Gambia, Geba, Volta and Turkana basins in West, Northeast and East Africa.
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Fish as food
Many species of fish are consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.
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Food contaminant
Food contamination refers to the presence in food of harmful chemicals and microorganisms which can cause consumer illness.
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Foodborne illness
Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as toxins such as poisonous mushrooms and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.
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Fresh Bones
"Fresh Bones" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files.
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Fugu
The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese or bogeo (복어) or bok (복) in Korean is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
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Garter snake
Garter snake (in addition to ribbon snake) is a common name for the nearly harmless, small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis.
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Goniopora toxin
Goniopora toxin (GPT) is a polypeptide toxin from the marine Goniopora species coral.
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Grass puffer
The grass puffer (Takifugu niphobles) is a species of fish in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae).
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Greater blue-ringed octopus
The greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) is one of four species of highly venomous blue-ringed octopuses belonging to the octopodidae family.
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GTx1-15
GTx1-15 is a toxin from the Chilean tarantula venom that acts as both a voltage-gated calcium channel blocker and a voltage-gated sodium channel blocker.
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Hainantoxin
Hainantoxins (HNTX) are neurotoxins from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Haplopelma hainanum.
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Harry Stone Mosher
Harry Stone Mosher (August 31, 1915 – March 2, 2001) was an American chemist and the discoverer of Mosher's acid.
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Hello Again (1987 film)
Hello Again is a 1987 American romantic fantasy-comedy film directed and produced by Frank Perry, written by Susan Isaacs and starring Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward, Austin Pendleton, Carrie Nye, Robert Lewis, Madeleine Potter, Thor Fields and Illeana Douglas.
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Hitoshi Okamura
Hitoshi Okamura (born December 2, 1952) is a Japanese scientist who specializes in chronobiology.
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Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae, suborder Xiphosurida, and order Xiphosura.
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Huwentoxin
Huwentoxins (HWTX) are a group of neurotoxic peptides found in the venom of the Chinese bird spider Haplopelma schmidti.
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Index of biochemistry articles
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms.
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Ion channel
Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore.
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Japanese fire belly newt
The Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) is a species of newt in the Salamandridae family endemic to Japan.
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Jingzhaotoxin
Jingzhaotoxin proteins are part of a venom secreted by Chilobrachys jingzhao, the Chinese tarantula.
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John Wilson Moore
John Wilson Moore (born 1920) is an internationally known biophysicist who pioneered the emergent power of computers, beginning in the 1950s, to reveal how signals are generated, integrated, and then travel in neurons.
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Killing of animals
The killing of animals is animal euthanasia (for pain relief), animal sacrifice (for a deity), animal slaughter (for food), hunting (for food, for sport, for fur and other animal products, etc.), blood sports, or roadkill (by accident).
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Lagocephalus sceleratus
The Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes).
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Lagocephalus spadiceus
Lagocephalus spadiceus, also known as the half-smooth golden pufferfish, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae.
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List of biomolecules
This is a list of articles that describe particular biomolecules or types of biomolecules.
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List of chemical warfare agents
A chemical weapon agent (CWA) is a chemical substance whose toxic properties are used to kill, injure or incapacitate human beings.
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List of fictional toxins
This is a list of toxins, poisons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons from works of fiction (usually in fantasy and science fiction).
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List of investigational analgesics
This is a list of investigational analgesics, or analgesics that are currently under development for clinical use but are not yet approved.
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List of Japanese ingredients
The following is a list of ingredients used in Japanese cuisine.
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List of Lost Tapes episodes
The following is a list of episodes of Lost Tapes, a thriller horror docudrama television series that airs on the Animal Planet channel.
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List of MeSH codes (D03)
This is the fourth part of the list of the "D" codes for MeSH.
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List of MeSH codes (D23)
This is the fourth part of the list of the "D" codes for MeSH.
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List of venomous animals
Numerous animal species naturally produce chemical toxins which are used to kill or incapacitate prey or as a defense against predators.
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Liver (food)
The liver of mammals, fowl, and fish is commonly eaten as food by humans.
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Local anesthetic
A local anesthetic (LA) is a medication that causes reversible absence of pain sensation, although other senses are often affected, as well.
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Lysinibacillus fusiformis
Lysinibacillus fusiformis (commonly abbreviated L. fusiformis) is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Lysinibacillus.
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Mangrove horseshoe crab
The mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda), also known as the round-tailed horseshoe crab, is a chelicerate arthropod found in tropical marine and brackish waters in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong.
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Map puffer
The map puffer (Arothron mappa), also known as the map pufferfish, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.
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Mariko Yashida
is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Masayuki Kawamura
was a Japanese physician who worked at Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium between 1909 and 1933.
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Median lethal dose
In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen.
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Molecular neuroscience
Molecular neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that observes concepts in molecular biology applied to the nervous systems of animals.
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Nav1.5
NaV1.5 is an integral membrane protein and tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-gated sodium channel subunit.
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Nav1.7
Nav1.7 is a sodium ion channel that in humans is encoded by the SCN9A gene.
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Nav1.8
Nav1.8 is a sodium ion channel subtype that in humans is encoded by the SCN10A gene.
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Nav1.9
Sodium channel, voltage-gated, type XI, alpha subunit also known as SCN11A or Nav1.9 is a voltage-gated sodium ion channel protein which is encoded by the SCN11A gene on chromosome 3 in humans.
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Neurotoxin
Neurotoxins are toxins that are poisonous or destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity).
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Newt
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae, also called eft during its terrestrial juvenile phase.
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Nisoxetine
Nisoxetine, originally synthesized in the Lilly research laboratories during the early 1970s, is a potent and selective inhibitor for the reuptake of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) into synapses.
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Ocean sunfish
The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is the heaviest known bony fish in the world.
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Octopus
The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
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Ocular dominance column
Ocular dominance columns are stripes of neurons in the visual cortex of certain mammals (including humans) that respond preferentially to input from one eye or the other.
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Okadaic acid
Okadaic acid, C44H68O13, is a toxin produced by several species of dinoflagellates, and is known to accumulate in both marine sponges and shellfish.
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Pahutoxin
Pahutoxin, formerly called ostracitoxin, is a neurotoxin present in the mucous secretions of boxfish (Ostraciidae) skin, while under stress.
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Panamanian golden frog
The Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is a species of toad endemic to Panama.
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Pao suvattii
Pao suvattii,Kottelat, M. (2013): The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No.
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Pao turgidus
Pao turgidusKottelat, M. (2013): The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No.
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Paralysis
Paralysis is a loss of muscle function for one or more muscles.
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Pleurobranchaea maculata
Pleurobranchaea maculata, or the grey side-gilled slug, is a species of sea slug, specifically a side-gill slug or notaspidean.
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Poisonous fish
Poisonous fish are fish that are poisonous to eat.
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Porcupinefish
Porcupinefish are fish belonging to the family Diodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes), also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish.
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Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis
Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis is a marine bacterium isolated from the surface slime of the puffer fish. It secretes the neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin. It was originally described in 1990 as Alteromonas tetraodonia but was reclassified in 2001 to the genus Pseudoalteromonas.
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Quinidine
Quinidine is a pharmaceutical agent that acts as a class I antiarrhythmic agent (Ia) in the heart.
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Red Sea species hazardous to humans
Although most species in the Red Sea pose no threat to humans, there are a few notable exceptions.
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Red-bellied newt
The red-bellied newt (Taricha rivularis) is a newt, native to coastal woodlands in northern California, that is terrestrial for most of its life.
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Reicheltia halsteadi
Reicheltia halsteadi, Halstead's toadfish, is a species of pufferfish endemic to Australia.
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Remora
The remoras, sometimes called suckerfish, are a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes.
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Retinal waves
Retinal waves are spontaneous bursts of action potentials that propagate in a wave-like fashion across the developing retina.
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Riluzole
Riluzole (marketed as Rilutek and Teglutik) is a drug used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Rough-skinned newt
The rough-skinned newt or roughskin newt (Taricha granulosa) is a North American newt known for the strong toxin exuded from its skin.
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S100A10
S100 calcium-binding protein A10 (S100A10), also known as p11, is a protein that is encoded by the S100A10 gene in humans and the S100a10 gene in other species.
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Saddleback toad
The saddleback toads are a genus of small, colourful toads the family Brachycephalidae in the order Anura.
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Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
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Sashimi
Sashimi (刺身) is a Japanese delicacy consisting of very fresh raw meat or fish sliced into thin pieces.
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Saxitoxin
Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin (PST).
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Secondary metabolite
Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of an organism.
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Select agent
Under United States law, "Biological Select Agents or Toxins" (BSATs) — or simply select agents for short — are bio-agents which since 1997 have been declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to have the "potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety".
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Shewanella algae
Shewanella algae is a rod-shaped Gram-negative marine bacterium.
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Sierra newt
The Sierra newt, with scientific name Taricha sierrae, is a newt found west of the Sierra Nevada, from Shasta county to Tulare County, in California, Western North America.
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Smooth toadfish
The smooth toadfish (Tetractenos glaber) is a species of fish in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae.
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Sodium channel blocker
Sodium channel blockers are drugs which impair the conduction of sodium ions (Na+) through sodium channels.
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Spot-fin porcupinefish
The spot-fin porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix), also known as the spotted porcupinefish, black-spotted porcupinefish or simply porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae.
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Spotbase burrfish
Cyclichthys spilostylus, known commonly as the spotbase burrfish or yellowspotted burrfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae.
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Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
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Sushi
is a Japanese dish of specially prepared, usually with some sugar and salt, combined with a variety of, such as seafood, vegetables, and occasionally tropical fruits.
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Synaptic scaling
In neuroscience, synaptic scaling (or homeostatic scaling) is a form of homeostatic plasticity, in which the brain responds to chronically elevated activity in a neural circuit with negative feedback, allowing individual neurons to reduce their overall action potential firing rate.
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Takifugu
Takifugu is a genus of pufferfish, often better known by the Japanese name.
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Takifugu poecilonotus
Takifugu poecilonotus (finepatterned puffer) is a species of pufferfish, one of 25 in the genus Takifugu.
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Takifugu rubripes
Takifugu rubripes, commonly known as the Japanese puffer, Tiger puffer, or torafugu (虎河豚), is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu. It is distinguished by a very small genome that has been fully sequenced because of its use as a model species and is in widespread use as a reference in genomics.
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Taricha
The genus Taricha consists of four species of highly poisonous newts in the family Salamandridae.
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Tectin (drug)
Tectin is the brand name of a pain killing drug currently in development by WEX Pharmaceuticals Inc. The drug is a purified version of the main toxin in the pufferfish, tetrodotoxin, a very potent neurotoxin which shuts down electrical signaling in nerves by blocking sodium channels on nerve cell membranes.
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Tetraodontidae
The Tetraodontidae are a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.
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Tetraodontiformes
The Tetraodontiformes are an order of highly derived ray-finned fish, also called the Plectognathi.
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The Riddle of the Sphinx (Inside No. 9)
"The Riddle of the Sphinx" is the third episode of the third series of the British dark comedy anthology television programme Inside No. 9.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (book)
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic is a 1985 book by anthropologist and researcher Wade Davis.
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Toshio Narahashi
Toshio Narahashi (January 30, 1927 – April 21, 2013) was an internationally known pharmacologist.
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Toxinology
Toxinology is the specialized area of science that deals specifically with animal, plant, and microbial toxins.
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Triturus
Triturus is a genus of newts comprising the crested and the marbled newts, which are found from Great Britain through most of continental Europe to westernmost Siberia, Anatolia, and the Caspian Sea region.
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TTX
TTX may refer to.
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Vibrio alginolyticus
Vibrio alginolyticus is a Gram-negative marine bacterium.
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Vibrionaceae
The Vibrionaceae are a family of Proteobacteria given their own order.
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Wade Davis (anthropologist)
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Wildlife of Alaska
The wildlife of Alaska is diverse and abundant.
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Xanthidae
Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs.
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Xenobiotic
A xenobiotic is a chemical substance found within an organism that is not naturally produced or expected to be present within the organism.
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Yoshimasa Hirata
Yoshimasa Hirata (平田 義正 Hirata Yoshimasa, 1915 – 5 March 2000) was a Japanese organic chemist.
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Yoshito Kishi
is the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.
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Zetekitoxin AB
Zetekitoxin AB (ZTX) is a guanidine alkaloid found in the Panamanian golden frog Atelopus zeteki.
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Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.
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Zosimus aeneus
Zosimus aeneus is a species of crab that lives on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to Hawaii.
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1000 Ways to Die (season 1)
The TV show 1000 Ways to Die airs on the cable channel Spike.
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4-Aminopyridine
4-Aminopyridine (4-AP, fampridine, dalfampridine) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C5H4N–NH2.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin
