Toxins and Biologically Active Compounds from Microalgae, Volume 2

Biological Effects and Risk Management
Herausgeber: Rossini, Gian Paolo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Toxins and Biologically Active Compounds from Microalgae: Volume 2: Biological Effects and Risk Management is devoted to the effects toxic microalgae and their poisonous products exert on living systems and how they may affect human activities. The most advanced information regarding the molecular mechanisms of action of major groups of toxins is presented, to frame for the description of toxic responses found in living systems exposed to microalgal toxins. Accounts of the recognized environmental effects of harmful algal blooms and the existing therapeutic applications of some toxins have been included. The picture is completed by the description of current initiatives to manage the risks posed by toxic microalgae, including strategies for the detoxification of contaminated seafood and the efforts to use most advanced informatic tools for the development of models for robust predictions regarding the appearance and the dynamics of harmful algal blooms. The complexity of risk management in the field is presented from a global perspective by highlighting major issues approached in world regions whose economic importance with regard to the production and commercialization of seafood is undeniable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 702
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1206g
• ISBN-13: 9781482231465
• ISBN-10: 1482231468
• Artikelnr.: 40038139

Autorenporträt

Gian Paolo Rossini

Inhaltsangabe

Toxic microalgae and cyanobacteria. Harmful algae and their toxins:
progress, paradoxes and paradigm shifts. Micröalgal and cyanobacterial
producers of biotoxins. Detection and identification of toxic microalgae by
the use of innovative molecular methodologies. Factors affecting algal
toxicity. Microalgal toxins: chemistry and detection. Chemistry and
detection of okadaic acid/dinophysistoxins, pectenotoxins and yessotoxins.
Chemistry of brevetoxins. The chemistry of ciguatoxins: from the first
records to current challenges of monitoring programs. Palytoxins: chemistry
and detection. Chemistry and detection of domoic acid and isomers. Current
knowledge of paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis, molecular detection
and evolution. Current understanding and hypotheses on the biosynthesis of
microalgal polyether toxins. Total synthesis of marine polycyclic ether
natural products. Instrumental methods for determination of marine
microalgal toxins. Biological assays for toxin detection: characteristics,
potential and critical issues. Marine toxin detection methods in regulation
- from validation to implementation.