As we already stated, the toxin from pufferfish is called tetrodotoxin, and it can have serious effects on humans if consumed ...

Their bodies are laced with a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. It's up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide. So poisonous that one puffer fish can kill 30 adult humans. So poisonous that ...

The tetrodotoxin found in fugu is more toxic ... More from Retail There are over 120 species of puffer fish, and 22 different kinds are approved by the Japanese government for use in restaurants.

Researchers have documented the northernmost record of the highly invasive silver-cheeked toadfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus, ...

The smile of a starry puffer, Arothron stellatus ... Tetrodotoxin - often shortened to TTX -was named for the fish but scientists have since found it in other species including the blue-ringed octopus ...

Puffer fish are surprisingly diverse in size ... Their spines contain a toxin called tetrodotoxin. The toxins can actually be found throughout the fish's body, and if prepared improperly, they ...

Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible ... and something unique will have vanished from Japanese culture. *American puffer fish, which are also poisonous, are sold as “sea ...