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Article: Microdistribution of tetrodotoxin in invertebrates characterized.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- December 27, 2004
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2004 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The microdistribution of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in invertebrates was characterized using a novel immunoenzymatic assay.
In a recent study from Japan, TTX was "localized as brown color in different tissues of an undescribed species of the nemertean genus Cephalothrix (phylum Nemertea) and a turbellarian Planocera reticulata (phylum Platyhelminthes) on light microscopy by means of a monoclonal anti-TTX antibody."
"In the Cephalothrix sp., TTX was recognized in the vesicles apically arranged in the bacillary cells in the epidermis, basal lamina, the granular cells in the proboscis epithelium, rhynchocoel epithelium, ...