Talk:Batrachotoxin
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Copyvio
[edit]Problem: a deal of this comes verbatim from a California Polytechnic State University term paper on Batrachotoxin. I haven't shopped it as copyvio, as it's a first article and is probably down to inexperience. But it needs rewriting pronto. Tearlach 20:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I thought the antidote for the poison arrow/dart frog was honey, seen from man vs wild. Talvinlee (talk) 23:44, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Pitohui
[edit]Shouldn't the Pitohui be listed as a source of the toxin? I'm not sure but I heard their diet of beetles contibute their posion.
I enjoyed your article
[edit]Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.128.37.171 (talk) 01:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC).
Pronounciation
[edit]How does one pronounce the word Batrachotoxin?? "Buh-track-oh-toxin?" "Bat-trah-cho-toxin?" "Buh-TRAH-cho-toxin?" "Buh-TRAY-ko-toxin?" .. asked by Vid2vid 17:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC).
I suggest "bah-TRAH-cho-toxin" or "buh-TRAH-cho-toxin". Certainly not 'K' on the 'ch'. Rule in English is isolated vowel is soft, so 'ah' rather than 'ay', in 'tra'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.15.68.19 (talk) 21:32, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Contested statements removed to talk
[edit]- One freshly caught frog has up to 2 milligrams of toxin, or 50 times the lethal dose in humans. {{Fact|date=January 2007}}
Please do not restore this information to the article without a citation.--BirgitteSB 04:10, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Statements such as "Extrapolating from the LD50 in rats, the lethal dose of this alkaloid in humans is estimated to be XXX µg/kg" is unscientific. Toxicity cannnot be readily extraplolated (gues-trapolation would be the right term).
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[edit]The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Batrachotoxin/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
| Is this toxin effective if ingested or must it be injected. mdbg |
Last edited at 19:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 09:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Redundancy
[edit]In the section Toxicity, it states that the toxin affects (sodium) ion channels 3 times. The section needs to be cleaned up so it does not repeat previous statements. The way it stands currently, it is difficult to understand. LDCorey (talk) 04:27, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Structure of BTX
[edit]The stereochemistry at C20 (on the D-ring) in the structure of BTX is incorrect. The methyl should be wedged, not dashed. 171.66.13.14 (talk) 18:38, 21 March 2024 (UTC)