Phycotoxins

Editor: Dr. Luis M Botana is professor of Pharmacology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His group is a world leader in the development of new methods to monitor the presence of phycotoxins, having developed methods to date for saxitoxins, yessotoxin, pectenotoxin, ciguatoxins, brevetoxins, okadaic acid and dinophysistoxins Dr. Botana is the editor of Seafood and Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology, Physiology and Detection, to date the only comprehensive reference book entirely devoted to marine toxins.

1. Gambierols (Makoto Sasaki, Eva Cagide, and Carmen Louzao). 2. Brevetoxins: Structure, Toxicology and Origin (Ambrose Furey, Keith O'Callaghan, Javier Garcia Fernandez, Mary Lehane, Monica Fernandez Amandi, and Kevin J. James). 3. Chemistry of Maitotoxin (Masayuki Satake). 4. Biochemistry of Maitotoxin (Laura A. de la Rosa, Emilio Alvarez-Parrilla, and Alejandro Martinez). 5. The Chemistry of Palytoxins and Ostreocins (Panagiota Katikou). 6. Biochemistry of Palytoxins and Ostreocins (Carmen Vale and Isabel R. Ares). 7. Chemistry of Cyanobacterial Neurotoxins - Anatoxin-a: Synthetic Approaches (Nuria Armesto Arbella, Keith O'Callaghan, Ambrose Furey, and Kevin J. James). 8. Anatoxin-a and Analogues: Discovery, Distribution and Toxicology (Kevin J. James, Janet Crowley, Mary Lehane, and Ambrose Furey). 9. Pectenotoxins (Christopher Miles). 10. Chemistry, Orgins and Distribution of Yessotoxin and its Analogues (Philipp Hess and John A.B. Aasen). 11. Pharmacology of Yessotoxin (Amparo Alfonso and Carmen Alfonso). 12. Chemistry of Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins (Paulo Vale). 13. The Molecular and Integrative Basis to Domoic Acid Toxicity (John Ramsdell). 14. Hepatotoxic Cyanobacteria (Ana Gago). 15. Polycavernosides (Leo A. Paquette and Mari Yamashita. 16. Structural Assignment and Total Synthesis of Azaspiracid-1 (K.C. Nicolaou, Michael O. Frederick, Kevin P. Cole, Goran Petrovic, and Eriketi Loizidou). 17. Biochemistry of Azaspiracid Poisoning Toxins (Natalia Vilarino). 18. The Cyclic Imines: An Insight into this Emerging Group of Bioactive Marine Toxins (Jordi Molgo and Emmanuelle Girard, and Evelyne Benoit). Index.