Studies of Ecology, Chemical Analysis, and Biochemical Properties of Bio-Toxins from Aquatic Organisms
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 3533
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine bioactive natural products; marine toxins; marine microbiota; rapid detection methods; bioactive materials; anti-allergic natural products
Interests: cyanotoxin; microbiota; metabolites; accumulation; toxicological effects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biotoxins discovered from aquatic organisms in marine or freshwater ecosystems, such as algal toxins, shellfish toxins, palytoxin, ostreocins, etc., often lead to direct economic losses and limit the development of aquaculture, as well as seriously affecting human health and safety. Aquatic toxins can be passed on to humans through the food chain or direct contact, thus causing poisoning; additionally, the toxins themselves could become “allergens”, causing excessive immune responses.
The scope of this Special Issue includes studies on the occurrence and developmental mechanisms of biotoxins from aquatic organisms, rapid detection and characterization of the biotoxins, assessment of ecological risks, environmental fate, accumulation, and dissipation of toxins transmitted along food chain, as well as the effects on human health and safety.
Since the 20th century, shellfish poisoning incidents have been reported in many countries. About half of all unnatural deaths in marine mammals are due to of the ingestion of HABs (harmful algal blooms) or animals contaminated with them, which cause about 60,000 annual poisonings worldwide. Toxins can cause several clinically explained syndromes, characterized by a variety of symptoms, such as neurotoxic, diarrhetic, amnesic, and paralytic. In the 1970s, cholera toxin was found to modulate the immune response, and in the 1980s, some toxins were characterized as “super antigens”, which revealed that aquatic toxins may also be a risk factor for many immune diseases, e.g., food allergy.
Scholastic research on advanced science and technology may include but is not limited to bioinformatics, biogenetics, and biosynthetic mechanisms of aquatic biotoxins; the development of analytical and bioanalytical techniques for rapid detection mechanisms of biotoxins from aquatic organisms; rapid detection and characterization of biotoxins; assessment of ecological risks, environmental fate, accumulation, and dissipation of toxins transmitted along the food chain, as well as the effects on humans and characterization of biotoxins; and biological and biostatistical studies for the evaluation of ecological risks, environmental fate, and toxic and immune effects on human health and safety.
Prof. Dr. Bingnan Han
Prof. Dr. Zengling Ma
Dr. Ping Tong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic/animal/botany/microbiota
- biosynthesis
- toxins
- immune response
- cofactor
- toxin accumulation
- metabolic pathway
- chemical analysis
- risk assessment
