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Science of toxins

  • Botulinum Neurotoxin

    Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is a bacterial protein toxin with a molecular weight of 150 kDa produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum , C. butyricum and read more...

  • Ricin

    Ricin is a plant poison and found in the seeds of Ricinus communis (also known as the castor bean plant, see Fig. 1+2) from the Euphorbiaceae. The poison provides the read more...

  • Staphylococcus Enterotoxin B

    Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB) is an exotoxin produced by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus ( Pinchuk et al. 2010 ). These bacteria (Fig. 1), which generally measure read more...

  • Saxitoxin

    Saxitoxins (mytilotoxin; shellfish toxins; STX, PSP) are neurotoxic poisons produced naturally by certain types of planktonic algae (dinoflagellates) ( Wiese et al. read more...