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Yessotoxin in mussels of the northern Adriatic Sea
P Ciminiello1, E Fattorusso, M Forino
1Dipartimento di Chimica dell Sostanze Naturali, Università degli studi di Napoli, Federico II, Italy.
Abstract:
This study investigated the composition of diarrhoetic shellfish toxins in the hepatopancreas of mussels from the northern Adriatic Sea. The major toxins were shown to be yessotoxin, identified by its chromatographic properties and spectral data, and okadaic acid, detected both by fluorometric high-performance liquid chromatography and by comparison of its spectral properties with those of an authentic sample.