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Batrachotoxin (BTX) is an
extremely potent cardiotoxic and
neurotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in
certain species of beetles, birds, and frogs. The name...
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Leimadophis epinephelus has
shown resistance to
several frog
toxins including batrachotoxin, and has been
observed to eat
juvenile frogs without ill effects. The...
- pito****, the ifrita, and the
rufous or
little shrikethrush all
sequester batrachotoxin in
their skin and feathers. The
African spur-winged
goose is
toxic to...
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species is one of the few
known poisonous birds,
containing a
range of
batrachotoxin compounds in its skin,
feathers and
other tissues.
These toxins are...
- Some
other toxins have no
known antidote. For example, the
poison batrachotoxin – a
highly poisonous steroidal alkaloid derived from
various poison...
- also
known to
induce a voltage-dependent open
channel block on the
batrachotoxin (BTX)-activated
sodium channels in cardiomyocytes.
Procainamide is used...
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their stout and
clawed feet. Additionally, blue-capped
ifrits have
batrachotoxin within their feathers and skin. Blue-capped
ifrits are
endemic to New...
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poisonous alkaloids these frogs contain (in
glands in
their skin) is
batrachotoxin,
alongside a wide
variety of
other toxic compounds. Some po****tions...
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variable and
hooded pito****s,
contain powerful neurotoxic alkaloids of the
batrachotoxin group (also
secreted by the
Colombian poison dart frogs,
genus Phyllobates)...
- the rest of the
Phyllobates species,
produce a
neurotoxin known as a
batrachotoxin that
inhibits specific transmembrane channels in cells. Due to this...
