ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Poison Dart Frog

golden poison dart frog acmt

The toxin from the golden poison dart frog most resembles which of the following in its mechanism of action?

  1. Botulinum toxin
  2. Bufotoxin
  3. Grayanotoxin
  4. Palytoxin
  5. Tetrodotoxin

Photo adapted from Wilfried Berns (Wikimedia Commons)

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