Presence and persistence of the amnesic shellfish poisoning toxin, domoic acid, in octopus and cuttlefish brains

Domoic acid (DA) is a neurotoxin that causes degenerative damage to brain cells and induces permanent short-term memory loss in mammals. In cephalopod mollusks, although DA is known to accumulate primarily in the digestive gland, there is no knowledge whether DA reaches their central nervous system....

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Autor principal: Lopes, Vanessa M. (author)
Outros Autores: Rosa, Rui (author), Costa, Pedro R. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2020
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/41240
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/41240