Marine Toxins as Research Tools

Marine organisms produce a wide array of toxins, many of which are not only structurally unusual, but also show potent and interesting modes of action. Since the discovery of tetrodotoxin, a pufferfish toxin, as a potent and selective blocker of Na+ channels in 1964, it has been widely used as a res...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fusetani, Nobuhiro. (Editor), Kem, William. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 46
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87895-7