Some neurotoxins such as tetrodoxin (found in puffer in marine dinoflagellates)

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Some neurotoxins such as tetrodoxin (found in puffer in marine dinoflagellates) act by blocking voltage-sat d s dium channels. A Which type of functional groups of nerves are affected if the toxin causes a tingling sensation? C) These neurotoxins can cause death when they interfere with somatic motor neurons. The nerves cannot send inpulses to the muscles to tell them to contract, thus causing paralysis. These neurotoxins could cause death by paralysis of which skeletal muscle? 3. .) and saxitoxin (found potential do they interrupt when they exest heir effecets? B) Which

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A) action potential

B) They bind the carboxyl groups through their guanidium groups

c) death occurs from the paralysis of diaphragm which then causes respiratory failure and eventually death

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