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• n  a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish

• Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify.
• Japanese government officials will verify tetrodotoxin levels before the fugu is flash-frozen and flown to New York.
• Japanese chemists are also hard at work on a more practical chore: finding an antidote for tetrodotoxin poisoning.

News & Articles

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• Pufferfish neurotoxin may serve as treatment for cancer therapy related pain
  ( John Theurer Cancer Center ) Researchers at the Brain and Spine Institute at John Theurer Cancer Center at HackensackUMC, one of the nation's 50 best hospitals for cancer, are studying a possible alternative to side effect-ridden opioid-based medications to treat cancer-related pain. The active ingredient for the treatment is Tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin found in pufferfish.
  June 26, 2013 - EurekAlert!