Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Maitotoxin (or MTX) is an extremely potent toxin produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus a dinoflagellate species. Maitotoxin is so potent that it has been demonstrated that an intraperitoneal injection of 0.13 µg/kg was lethal in mice. Maitotoxin was named from the ciguateric fish Ctenochaetus striatus—called maito in Tahiti—from which maitotoxin was isolated for the first time. It was later shown that maitotoxin is actually produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus.
