title: Transfer profile of intramuscularly administered tetrodotoxin to artificial hybrid specimens of pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes and Takifugu niphobles.
abstract: Tetrodotoxin (TTX) was intramuscularly administered to artificially hybridized specimens of the pufferfish Takifugu rubripes and Takifugu niphobles to investigate toxin accumulation in hybrids, and TTX transfer/accumulation profiles in the pufferfish body. In the test fish administered 146 MU TTX in physiologic saline, TTX rapidly transferred from the muscle via the blood to other organs. Toxin transfer to the ovary rapidly increased to 53.5 MU/g tissue at the end of the 72-h test period. The TTX content in the liver and skin was, at most, around 4-6 MU/g tissue, and in the testis it was less than 0.01 MU/g tissue. On the other hand, based on the total amount of toxin per individual (% of the administered toxin), the skin and the liver contained higher amounts (20-54% and 2-24%, respectively), but the amount in the liver rapidly decreased after 8-12 h, and fell below the level in the ovary after 48 h. These findings suggest that part of the TTX is first taken up in the liver and then transferred/accumulated in the skin in male specimens and in the ovary in female specimens.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
authors.forename: Junjie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Taiichiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Ryohei
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tatsuno
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nina
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Masaomi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamasaki
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakakura
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takatani
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arakawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D005260:Female; D007273:Injections, Intramuscular; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D010053:Ovary / Q000378:metabolism; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism; D023741:Takifugu / Q000378:metabolism*; D023721:Tetraodontiformes / Q000378:metabolism*; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*
chemical_list: D013779:Tetrodotoxin