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Microcystins

Known as: Microcystins [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Cyclic heptapeptides found in MICROCYSTIS and other CYANOBACTERIA. Hepatotoxic and carcinogenic effects have been noted. They are sometimes called… Expand
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Microcystincyanobacterial toxincyanoginosin LRmicrocystin LL
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Review
2019
Review
2019
Microcystin-RR: Occurrence, content in water and food and toxicological studies. A review.
Microcystins (MCs) are hepatotoxins, produced by various species of cyanobacteria, whose occurrence is increasing worldwide owing… Expand
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Organic anion transporting polypeptides expressed in liver and brain mediate uptake of microcystin.
Microcystins are toxins produced by freshwater cyanobacteria. They are cyclic heptapeptides that exhibit hepato- and… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Phylogenetic evidence for the early evolution of microcystin synthesis.
Cyanobacteria are a prolific source of secondary metabolites, including compounds with toxic and enzyme-inhibiting activities… Expand
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Microcystin biosynthesis in planktothrix: genes, evolution, and manipulation.
Microcystins represent an extraordinarily large family of cyclic heptapeptide toxins that are nonribosomally synthesized by… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Microcystin contamination in fish from the Jacarepaguá Lagoon (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): ecological implication and human health risk.
Chronic and subchronic toxicity from exposure to microcystins, cyclic peptide liver toxins from certain cyanobacteria, poses an… Expand
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Review
1998
Review
1998
The toxicology of microcystins.
  • R. M. Dawson
  • Toxicon : official journal of the International…
  • 1998
    • Corpus ID: 20202161
Microcystins are a family of more than 50 structurally similar hepatotoxins produced by species of freshwater cyanobacteria… Expand
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Fatal microcystin intoxication in haemodialysis unit in Caruaru, Brazil
BACKGROUND After a drought in February, 1996, all 126 patients in a haemodialysis unit in Caruaru, north-east Brazil, developed… Expand
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Identification of an enzymatically formed glutathione conjugate of the cyanobacterial hepatotoxin microcystin-LR: the first step of detoxication.
Cyanobacterial toxins have adverse effects on mammals, birds and fish and are being increasingly recognised as a potent stress… Expand
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Extraction and high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of microcystins in raw and treated waters.
Increasing concern over the presence of microcystins (cyanobacterial/blue-green algal hepatotoxins) in water supplies has… Expand
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Use of a colorimetric protein phosphatase inhibition assay and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for the study of microcystins and nodularins.
  • J. An, W. Carmichael
  • Toxicon : official journal of the International…
  • 1994
    • Corpus ID: 6173258
Microcystins and nodularins are cyclic peptide hepatotoxins and tumor promoters produced by several genera of cyanobacteria… Expand
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