Word: tetrodotoxin
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...fugu has drawn additional attention by its long-defiant challenge to the chemists' skill. Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify. But Japanese science has finally turned the trick. For establishing the molecular structure of tetrodotoxin, Professors Kyosuke Tsuda of Tokyo University, Yoshimasa Hirata of Nagoya University, Isamu Nitta of Kwansei Gakuin University, and Akira Yokoo of Okayama University have just won the prestigious Asahi prize...
...Antidote. Cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning do not occur every day, but only too often the chopsticks drop from a victim's fingers. His breathing becomes difficult; his heart action falters...