Tetrodotoxin/Saxitoxin Accumulation Profile in the Euryhaline Marine Pufferfish Chelonodontops patoca

Marine pufferfish, which naturally possess tetrodotoxins (TTXs), selectively take up and accumulate TTXs, whereas freshwater pufferfish, which naturally possess saxitoxins (STXs), selectively take up and accumulate STXs. To further clarify the TTXs/STXs selectivity in pufferfish, we conducted a TTX/...

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Veröffentlicht in:Toxins 2023-12, Vol.16 (1), p.18
Hauptverfasser: Zhu, Hongchen, Sakai, Takashi, Doi, Hiroyuki, Yamaguchi, Kenichi, Yamada, Akinori, Takatani, Tomohiro, Arakawa, Osamu
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Zusammenfassung:Marine pufferfish, which naturally possess tetrodotoxins (TTXs), selectively take up and accumulate TTXs, whereas freshwater pufferfish, which naturally possess saxitoxins (STXs), selectively take up and accumulate STXs. To further clarify the TTXs/STXs selectivity in pufferfish, we conducted a TTX/STX administration experiment using , a euryhaline marine pufferfish possessing both TTXs and STXs. Forty nontoxic cultured individuals of were divided into a seawater group (SW, acclimated/reared at 33‱ salinity; = 20) and a brackish water group (BW, acclimated/reared at 8‱ salinity; = 20). An aqueous TTX/STX mixture was intrarectally administered (both at 7.5 nmol/fish), and five individuals/group were analyzed after 1-48 h. Instrumental toxin analyses revealed that both TTX and STX were taken up, transferred, and retained, but more STX than TTX was retained in both groups. TTX gradually decreased and eventually became almost undetectable in the intestinal tissue, while STX was retained at ~5-10% of the dose level, and only STX showed transient transfer in the liver. The BW group showed a faster decrease/disappearance of TTX, greater STX retention in the intestine, and greater STX transient transfer to the liver. Thus, appears to more easily accumulate STXs than TTXs, especially under hypoosmotic conditions.
ISSN:2072-6651
2072-6651
DOI:10.3390/toxins16010018