Edible mussel

Dixon, D.R. and H. Prosser. 1986. An investigation of the genotoxic effects of an organotin antifouling compound (bis (tributyltin) oxide) on the chromosomes of the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis. Aquat. Toxicol. 8 185-195. 

Fig. 30. Zimm-plot and Kratky-plot of glycogen from edible mussels. Neutron small-angle measurements in deuterated water. The dotted line describes the scattering behavior of the ABC model with ac = aAp, and a branching probability of p = 0.2590,174)...

Chioccara, F., Misuraca, G., Novellino, E., and Prota, G., Occurrence of two new mycosporine-like amino acids, mytilins A and B in the edible mussel, Mytilis galloprovincialis, Tetrahedron Lett., 34, 3181, 1979. 

Jansen in 1913 and Ackermann in 1921 independently reported the discovery of a polyalcohol in the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis. This substance was named mytilitol and was considered by its first discoverer to be an isomer of quercitol and by its second discoverer to be a C-methyl inositol. Daniel and Doran several years later reviewed the evidence, which they considered to favor Ackermann s interpretation. 

Edible mussel (Mytilus edulis) Soft parts... 

Falconer, I.R. and Choice, A. Toxicity of edible mussels (Mytilus edulis) growing naturally in an estuary during a water bloom of the blue-green alga. Nodularia spumigena. Environ. Toxic. Water, 1,119,1992. 

Parry JM, Kadhim M, Barnes W, Danford N (1981) Assays of marine organisms for the presence of mutagenic and/or carcinogenic chemicals. In Dawe CJ, Harshbarger JC, Kondo S, Sugimura T, Takayama S (eds) Phyletic approaches to cancer. Jpn Sci Soc, Tokyo, pp 141-166 Partali V, Tangen K, Liaaen-Jensen S (1989) Carotenoids in food chain studies-III. Resorption and metabolic transformation of carotenoids in Mytilus edulis (edible mussel). Comp Biochem Physiol 92B 239-246... 

Brown algae (bladder wrack) and common mussels from the same sampling site display quite different accumulation behavior with respect to certain elements. As shown in Fig. 12, As, Ba, Mn, S and Zn are, for example, preferentially accumulated in bladder wrack, whereas an increased accumulation of Cu, Fe and Hg is found in common edible mussels. Furthermore, significant deviations arise for both sample species in a comparison of the North Sea and Baltic Sea (see Fig. 12), which differ considerably in their salt content. Both North Sea specimens conform in displaying a higher accumulation potential for As and Hg, whereas Ba, Mn, and Zn are accumulated to a greater extent in the Baltic Sea specimens. No site-specific allocations of this kind can be made for Cu, Fe, and S. On the whole, apart from the matrix-dependent parameters, in particular the salinity and the temperature seem to play a certain part here. 

Fig. 12 Accumulation of various elements in (a) edible mussels and (b) bladder wrack from the North Sea (N) and the Baltic Sea (B)...

There is increased evidence that 5-HT acts as a transmitter substance in the heart of some molluscs and as an inhibitor of the tonic contraction of the anterior retractor muscle of the edible mussel Mytilus eduUs). It acts as a hormone secreted by the posterior salivary glands in some species of cephalopods. 

A good example of the application of this procedure for the determination of the configuration of a complex substance is shown in Figure 94, which depicts oxazinin-1, a cytotoxic compound that has been isolated from the digestive glands of an edible mussel Mytllus galloprovinciali. That was recently published by Fattorusso et al. ° In that paper, MM calculations were initially performed to check the reliability of the NMR method with that particular substrate, and the stereochemistry was determined using the 9-AMA esters only after a positive result had been obtained. 

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