Cytotoxic actions of palytoxin on aortic
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Robert E. Sheridan; Sharad S. Deshpande; Michael Adler
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Palytoxin (PTX), isolated from a zoanthid of the genus Palythoa, is the most potent marine toxin known. Intoxication by PTX leads to vasoconstriction, hemorrhage, ataxia, muscle weakness, ventricular fibrillation, pulmonary hypertension, ischemia and death. In this study, clonal A7r5 rat aortic smoo