Neurotoxicity of cyanobacterial toxins

Biodegradation of Cyanobacterial Toxins

Water is an essential natural resource, necessary for drinking, agriculture and industrial activities, and providing the human population with safe drinking water is one of the most important issues in public health. Cyanobacteria produce toxins that may present a hazard for drinking water safety. These toxins are structurally diverse and their effects range from liver damage, including liver c...

Cyanobacterial Toxins Impact Crops

Oregon surface waters are experiencing increased occurrence of potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms (Fig. 1). It is necessary to use the modifier “potentially” because there is no toxin monitoring in the state of Oregon. Advisories are currently based on cell counts of potentially harmful cyanobacteria. This summary is intended to briefly review the recent research on the effects of a cyanob...

Removal of Cyanobacterial Toxins by Strains of Probiotic Bacteria

In vitro investigations on uptake and toxicity of cyanobacterial toxins

s & Poster presentations Fischer, A., Hoeger, S. J., Feurstein, D. J., Ernst, B., and Dietrich, D. R. (2007). Importance of organic anion transporting polypeptides (OATPs) for the toxicity of single microcystin congeners in vitro. 7th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Feurstein, D., Fischer, A., and Dietrich, D. (2007). In vitro toxic...

Effects of microcystins, cyanobacterial toxins, on Mammalian cells and organs.

Microcystins are hepatotoxic cyclic heptapeptides characterized by the presence of non proteinogenic b-amino acid ADDA. They are produced by numerous bloom forming cyanobacterial genera. Acute lethal intoxications of humans are rare, but especially chronic exposure to these toxins presents a serious threat to the health of human population. Microcystins enter cells mostly via bile acid transpor...