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Seafood and Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology, Physiology, and Detection (Food Science and Technology)
Author(s): Luis M. Botana
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 24 Aug. 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 816 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780824789565
- ISBN-13: 0824789563
Book Description
This volume focuses on the pharmacology, physiology, toxicology, chemistry, ecology and economics of seafood and freshwater toxins. It covers the biological aspects of the bloom, the effects and actions of each toxin with emphasis on human aspects, and the analytical and preparative options for neurotoxic, diarrhetic shellfish toxins, and hepatotoxic or neurotoxic freshwater cyanobacteria toxins.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…a complete treatise of actual knowledge about seafood and freshwater toxins….proves to be precious for the specialists, the researchers of seafood toxins, the sanitary inspectors, the physicians of the anti poison centres. It completes very exhaustively the serious bibliography about this matter. ” —Annals of Microbiology,2000
