Dictionary - Neurotoxin: Oceanography Dictionary - Neurotoxin
  Definition and meaning of neurotoxin:   neurotoxin - a toxic substance which interferes with the electrical activities...   » Read the article

Article - Oceanography Sitemap I - N
This is a sitemap for Oceanography - N . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Nervous System
The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the sen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ion Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - Ion Channel - Biological Role
Because "voltage-gated" channels underlie the nerve impulse and because "transmitter-gated" channels mediate conduction across the synaps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nervous System: Encyclopedia Ii - Nervous System - Vertebrate Nervous Systems
The nervous systems of vertebrate animals are often divided into a central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobra Snake: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobra Snake - Snakes Named Cobra
True Cobras Spitting cobra, (Various species) Cape Cobra, Naja nivea Indian Cobra, Naja naja Egyptian Cobra, Naja haje Monocled Cobra, N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conium: Encyclopedia Ii - Conium - Socrates
The most famous victim of hemlock poisoning is probably Socrates. After being condemned to death for impiety in 399 BC, Socrates was give...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cone Snail: Encyclopedia - Cone Snail
Linnaeus, 1758 Asprella Chelyconus Conus Floraconus Leptoconus The cone snails or cone shells (Conidae) are marine snails found in c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia - Alkane
An alkane in organic chemistry is a saturated hydrocarbon without cycles, that is, an acyclic hydrocarbon in which the molecule has the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Venomous Funnel-web Tarantula: Encyclopedia - Venomous Funnel-web Tarantula
or Atrax Hadronyche The venomous funnel-web spider (family Hexathelidae) are notorious for the inclusion of the Sydney funnel-web spider...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycad: Encyclopedia - Cycad
Cycadaceae cycas family Stangeriaceae stangeria family Zamiaceae zamia family Cycads are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemisia Plant: Encyclopedia - Artemisia Plant
See text Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with about 180 species belonging to the daisy family (Asteraceae). It comprises ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conium: Encyclopedia - Conium
Conium is a genus of 2-3 species of perennial herbaceous plants in the family Apiaceae. The most familiar species is Conium maculatum (al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tobacco: Encyclopedia - Tobacco
N. acuminata N. alata N. attenuata N. clevelandii N. excelsior N. forgetiana N. glauca N. glutinosa N. langsdorffii N. longiflora N. obtu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobra Snake: Encyclopedia - Cobra Snake
Cobras are venomous snakes of family Elapidae, of several genera. They generally inhabit tropical and desert regions of Asia and Africa. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia - Bird
Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bone...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ion Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - Ion Channel - Detailed Structure
Channels differ with respect to the ion they let pass (for example, Na+, K+, Cl−), the ways in which they may be regulated, the number ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viper: Encyclopedia - Viper
Adenorhinos Atheris Azemiops Bitis Cerastes Daboia Echis Eristicophis Macrovipera Montatheris Proatheris Pseudocerastes Vipera Vipers are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cone Snail: Encyclopedia Ii - Cone Snail - Harpoon And Venom
The cone snail's harpoon is a modification of the radula, an organ in molluscs which acts as both tongue and teeth. The harpoon is hollow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - Tobacco - Cultivation
Tobacco - Sowing. Tobacco seeds are started very early in the year. The seeds are scattered onto the surface of the soil, as their germ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetanus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetanus - Symptoms
The incubation period for tetanus is 3 to 21 days (with the average being about 8 days). For neonates, the incubation period is 4 to 14 d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugu: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugu - Consumption
Fugu has been consumed in Japan for a long time, although its historic origins is unclear. Bones of fugu have been found in several shell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetrodotoxin: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetrodotoxin - Tetrodotoxin Poisoning
Tetrodotoxin - History. The first recorded cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning were from the logs of Captain James Cook. He recorded his cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Retracted Article On Neurotoxicity Of Ecstasy: Encyclopedia Ii - Retracted Article On Neurotoxicity Of Ecstasy - Original Publication
The Ricaurte article was published in the middle of a group of 16 "reports" and not given special prominence in the "Highlights of resear...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycad: Encyclopedia Ii - Cycad - Introduction & Overview
Cycads are found across much of the subtropical and tropical parts of the world. They are found in South and Central America (where the g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - High-level Taxonomy
Birds form a class, whose scientific name is Aves. The founding species of class Aves probably lived in the Jurassic period. According to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Van Gogh: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Van Gogh - Life And Work
Vincent van Gogh - Birth and early life. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Zundert in the Province of Brabant, a province of the Neth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dave Weldon: Encyclopedia Ii - Dave Weldon - Statement On Mercury Exposure
Statement of U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon, MD, December 9, 2004 As a practicing physician and a Member of Congress, I have been increasin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetanus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetanus - Symptoms
The incubation period for tetanus is 3 days to as long as 15 weeks (with the average being about 8 days) [2]. For neonates, the incubatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Molecular Geometry
The molecular structure of the alkanes directly affects their physical and chemical characteristics. It is derived from the electron conf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemisia Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Artemisia Plant - Wormwoods
Absinth wormwood or green ginger (Artemisia absinthium) was used to repel fleas and moths, and in brewing (wormwood beer, wormwood wine)....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copperhead Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Copperhead Dc Comics - Background
The criminal known as Copperhead first appeared in Gotham City in a snake costume. He committed numerous thefts before finally being appr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perchlorate: Encyclopedia Ii - Perchlorate - Perchlorate Pollution
Perchlorates are a neurotoxin. They have been found to affect the thyroid gland in particular. When perchlorates enter the body, they blo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conium: Encyclopedia Ii - Conium - Socrates
The most famous victim of hemlock poisoning is probably Socrates. After being condemned to death for impiety in 399 BC, Socrates was give...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Evolution
Birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Specifically, birds are members of Maniraptora, a group of therop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison Dart Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison Dart Frog - Background
These frogs received their common name from the toxin (called pumiliotoxin) found in the skin of a few species, such as the most poisonou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Headcrab: Encyclopedia Ii - Headcrab - Features
Headcrab - Physical description. Although small, slow-moving, and relatively weak on its own, the headcrab has the ability to quickly l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Evolution
Birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Specifically, birds are members of Maniraptora, a group of therop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dave Weldon: Encyclopedia Ii - Dave Weldon - Contact Info
The Honorable Dave Weldon United States House of Representatives 2347 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515-0915 Phone: 20...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Headcrab: Encyclopedia Ii - Headcrab - Half-life 2 Headcrab Variations
New to Half-Life 2 are two previously unseen varieties of headcrabs. The first variation is known as a fast headcrab, having longer, thin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vincent Van Gogh: Encyclopedia Ii - Vincent Van Gogh - Pronunciation
"Van Gogh" (IPA: /fɑn xɔx/) is often pronounced in a completely different way from the original Dutch (particularly in the USA), someth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copperhead Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Copperhead Dc Comics - Powers & Abilities
Copperhead contortionist skills allow him to fit himself into incredibly small spaces (such as chimneys). He originally wore a snake-them...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Other Anatomy
Birds possess a ventriculus, or gizzard, that is composed of four muscular bands that act to rotate and crush food by shifting the food f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetanus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetanus - Treatment
The wound must be cleaned. Penicillin and metronidazole will help decrease the amount of bacteria but they have no effect on the toxin pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetanus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetanus - Association With Rust
Tetanus is often associated with rust, especially rusty nails, but this is somewhat misleading. Rust itself does not cause tetanus or con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Bird Orders
This is a list of the taxonomic orders in the class Aves. The list of birds gives a more detailed summary, including families. Paleognath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetrodotoxin: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetrodotoxin - Biochemistry
Tetrodotoxin binds to what is now known as site 1 of the voltage-gated sodium channel. Site 1 is located at the extracellular pore openin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugu: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugu - The Fish
There are 25 species belonging to the genus Takifugu (formerly known as Fugu, with the exception of one remaining Fugu species). Takifugu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Properties
Alkane - Physical properties. The molecular structure, particularly the surface area of the molecule, determines the boiling point of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Reactions
Alkane - Reactions with oxygen. All alkanes react with oxygen in a combustion reaction, although they become increasing difficult to ig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Alkanes In Nature
Although alkanes occur in nature in various way, they do not rank biologically among the essential materials. Cycloalkanes with 14 to 18 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - High-level Taxonomy
Birds form a class, whose scientific name is Aves. The founding species of class Aves probably lived in the Jurassic period. According to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Purification And Use
Alkanes are both important raw materials of the chemical industry and the most important fuels of the world economy. The starting materia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Occurrence
Alkanes occur both on Earth and in the solar system, however only the first hundred or so, and even then mostly only in traces. The light...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - Tobacco - History
Native Americans used tobacco before Europeans arrived in America, and early European settlers in America learned to smoke and brought th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - Tobacco - Types
Tobacco - Fire-cured. Fire-cured smoking tobacco is a robust variety of tobacco used as a condimental for pipe blends. It is cured by s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - Tobacco - Tobacco Products
Tobacco - Snuff. Snuff is a generic term for fine-ground smokeless tobacco products. Originally the term referred only to dry snuff, a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia Ii - Alkane - Nomenclature Of Alkanes
The names of all alkanes end with -ane. Alkane - Alkanes with unbranched carbon chains. The first four members of the series (in terms ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Bird Orders
This is a list of the taxonomic orders in the class Aves. The list of birds gives a more detailed summary, including families. Struthion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Reproduction
Although most male birds have no external sex organs, the male does have two testes which become hundreds of times larger during the bree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Respiration
Birds ventilate their lungs by means of crosscurrent flow: the air flows at a 90° angle to the flow of blood in the lungs' capillaries. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugu: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugu - Fugu Poisoning
Tetrodotoxin is a very potent neurotoxin and shuts down electrical signaling in nerves by binding to the pores of sodium channel proteins...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugu: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugu - Social Aspects
The popularity of fugu in Japan is an interesting phenomenon. Fugu is a very expensive fish, has some potentially lethal side effects, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugu: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugu - Availability
Most Japanese cities have one or more fugu restaurants. They may be clustered together as past regulations had placed limits on where the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycad: Encyclopedia Ii - Cycad - Conservation
In recent years, many cycads have been dwindling in numbers and may face risk of extinction because of theft and unscrupulous collection ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycad: Encyclopedia Ii - Cycad - History
Modern knowledge about Cycads began in the 9th century with the discovery by two Arab naturalists that the genus Cycas was used as a sour...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Mating Systems And Parental Care
Sources for this section include: Gowaty, Patricia Adair: Male Parental Care and Apparent Monogamy among Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia Siali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Other Anatomy
Birds possess a ventriculus, or gizzard, that is composed of four muscular bands that act to rotate and crush food by shifting the food f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird: Encyclopedia Ii - Bird - Birds And Humans
Birds are an important food source for humans. The most commonly eaten species is the domestic chicken and its eggs, although geese, phea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perchlorate: Encyclopedia Ii - Perchlorate - Scientific Definition
The perchlorate ion is ClO4-. A perchlorate (compound) is a compound containing this group, with chlorine in oxidation state +7. ... Se...   » Read the article