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The Symptomatology and Diagnosis of Domoic Acid Toxicosis in Stranded California Sea Lions: A Review and Evaluation of 20 Years of Cases to Guide Prognosis
2023-07-03
Abstract excerpt
Domoic acid (DA) is a glutaminergic excitatory neurotoxin that causes morbidity and mortality of California sea lions ( Zalophus californianus ; CSL) and other marine mammals due to a suite of effects mostly on the nervous and cardiac systems. Between 1998 and 2019, 11,737 live-stranded CSL were admitted to The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC; Sausalito, CA, USA), over 2,000 of which were intoxicated by DA. A plethora...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0eda701d-c571-5627-b17d-7e92701ef608
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.07.02.547442
