(http://employees.csbsju.edu/hjakubowski/classes/ch331/signaltrans/pufferfish.jpg)
Tetrodotoxin is a powerful poison derived from the puffer fish which blocks conduction of nerve and muscle through a selective inhibation of sodium carrying mechanisms. It is a neurotoxin with no known antidote. It is roughly 100 times more poisonous than potassium cyanide. Originally, it was thought to be an ingredient in Haitian voodooism and would manifest zombieism in the patient, but this was later dismissed in the 1980's as the symptoms are not related. 
(http://analogmedium.com/blog/2006/09/I_Walked_With_A_Zombie-2.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment