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  2. Tetrodotoxin - Wikipedia

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    Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin.Its name derives from Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish; several of these species carry the toxin.

  3. Fugu - Wikipedia

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    Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a natural product that has been isolated not only from pufferfish, but also octopuses, crabs, shellfish, frogs, newts, and other aquatic animals (see below). [12] It is a potent neurotoxin that shuts down electrical signaling in nerves ; it acts via interaction with components of the sodium channels in the cell membranes ...

  4. Tetraodontidae - Wikipedia

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    While chiri is much more likely to cause death, sashimi fugu often causes intoxication, light-headedness, and numbness of the lips. [25] Pufferfish tetrodotoxin deadens the tongue and lips, and induces dizziness and vomiting, followed by numbness and prickling over the body, rapid heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and muscle paralysis.

  5. The Top 10 Deadliest Animals In The World - AOL

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    Schistosomiasis causes severe abdominal pain and blood in the urine ... and liver of pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin; which is twelve hundred times more potent venom than cyanide. This neurotoxin ...

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  7. Poisonous fish - Wikipedia

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    Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog.The active substance, tetrodotoxin, found in the internal organs and sometimes also the skin, paralyzes the diaphragm muscles of human victims, who can die from suffocation.

  8. Map puffer - Wikipedia

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    The skin, liver, gonads, and intestines of the map puffer should not be consumed, as they contain high concentrations of the tetrodotoxin. [5] Specialized training is required to prepare a puffer fish containing tetrodotoxin for consumption, as to not contaminate the edible flesh with tetrodotoxin contained within the fish’s skin and organs.

  9. Vibrio alginolyticus - Wikipedia

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    Vibrio alginolyticus is a Gram-negative marine bacterium. [1] [2] It is medically important since it causes otitis and wound infection. [1]It is also present in the bodies of animals such as pufferfish, where it is responsible for the production of the potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin.