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    Delivery of local anaesthetics by a self-assembled supramolecular system mimicking their interactions with a sodium channel

    Site-1 sodium channel blockers (S1SCBs) act as potent local anaesthetics, but they can cause severe systemic toxicity. Delivery systems can be used to reduce the toxicity, but the hydrophilicity of S1SCBs make...

    Tianjiao Ji, Yang Li, **aoran Deng, Alina Y. Rwei in Nature Biomedical Engineering (2021)

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    Paralytic shellfish poisonings resulting from an algal bloom in Nicaragua

    During an October 2005 algal bloom (i.e., a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae) off the coast of Nicaragua, 45 people developed symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and one pe...

    Luis Callejas, Ana Cristian Melendez Darce, Juan Jose Amador in BMC Research Notes (2015)

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    Biotoxins and Food Safety

    Foodborne illness in humans is an important global public health issue. This is primarily caused by pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) and toxins from natural source and ...

    Ajay K. Singh, Eric A. E. Garber in Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism (2015)

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    Toxins and Food Safety

    Foodborne illness in humans is an important global public health issue. This is primarily caused by pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) and toxins from natural source and ...

    Ajay K. Singh, Eric A. E. Garber in Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism

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    Occurrence of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms Workgroup Report

    Anthony Fristachi, James L Sinclair in Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms: State… (2008)

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    Natural Toxins

    Marine food products are generally wholesome, nutritious, healthful, and desirable. However, they may on occasion contain potent toxins of natural origin that could pose a significant threat to the health of c...

    Sherwood Hall in Microbiology of Marine Food Products (1991)

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    Blocking Pharmacology of Batrachotoxin-Activated Sodium Channels

    Biochemical progress toward the mechanism of voltage-dependent Na+ channels has enjoyed the benefit of an extensive molecular pharmacology that includes natural specific toxins as well as synthetic chemical probe...

    Edward Moczydlowski, Akira Uehara, Sherwood Hall in Ion Channel Reconstitution (1986)