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[Progress in detecting methods on paralytic shellfish poisons].

Y Chen·J Liu
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Paralytic shellfish poisons have led to uncountable economic losses, and done potential harm to human health now. In order to overcome the limits of the traditional bioassay with mouse, many novel detecting methods have been developed, which made it possible to detect the paralytic shellfish poisons with sensitive, high effective and rapid methods. This paper systematically introduces the progress in research on paralytic shellfish poisons detection.

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Y Chen, J Liu. 1999-09-30. [Progress in detecting methods on paralytic shellfish poisons].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12712708/

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