Phycotoxins are a diverse group of poisonous substances produced by certain seaweed and algae in marine and fresh waters and are important to the scientific community for many reasons, the most obvious being that they pose food safety issues which requires a large investment to regularly monitor the presence of these compounds in foods. Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry, second edition presents the most updated information available on phycotoxins. Major emphases are given to chemistry and biochemistry, while origins, mechanism of action, toxicology, and analytical methodology are also covered. Since the publication of the first edition, there have been major advances in the science of marine and aquatic toxins, as well as advances in toxicology, analytical chemistry and pharmacology. This fully revised and updated edition includes several new chapters, including those on ciguatoxins, pinnatoxin, ichthyotoxins, as well as new chapters on food safety control of marine toxins, climate change and water toxins, and microalgae as a source of nutraceuticals. The book will be of interest to toxicologists, marine, food, and plant scientists, as well as researchers and academics in the areas of food science, medicine, public health, toxicology, pharmacology and marine biology.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Analysis of marine toxins: gaps on food safety control of marine toxins
Chapter 2: Pharmacology of ciguatoxins
Chapter 3: Chemistry of pinnatoxins
Chapter 4: Chemistry and analysis of PSP toxins
Chapter 5: Chemistry of palytoxin and its analogues
Chapter 6: Pharmacology of palytoxins and ostreocins
Chapter 7: Recent insights into anatoxin-a chemical synthesis, biomolecular targets, mechanisms of action and LC-MS detection
Chapter 8: Therapeutics of marine toxins
Chapter 9: Marine toxins as modulators of apoptosis
Chapter 10: Cyanobacterial toxins
Chapter 11: Marine toxins and climate change: the case of PSP from cyanobacteria in coastal lagoons
Chapter 12: Microalgae as a source of nutraceuticals
Chapter 13: The marine origin of drugs
Chapter 14: Pharmacology of cylindrospermopsin
Chapter 15: Pharmacology of the cyclic imines
Chapter 16: Diversity of organic structures of marine microbial origin with drug potential
Chapter 17: Polyketides as a source of chemical diversity
Chapter 18: Ichthyotoxins
Chapter 19: Pathological clues of phycotoxin ingestion
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