{"term":{"id":"11579","title":"amnesic shellfish poisoning","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - amnesic shellfish poisoning","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11579","code":"11579","status":"current","initialism":"<em>initialism<\/em>: ASP","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Human illness caused by consumption of the marine toxin domoic acid that may lead to dizziness, confusion, motor weakness and seizures, with permanent cognitive impairment and short term memory loss.","notes":{"1":"Domoic acid is produced by marine diatoms belonging to the genus Pseudo-nitzschia and the species Nitzschia navis-varingica. Domoic acid is passed on to humans by consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters, and clams that have accumulated it during filter feeding.","2":"Often characterized by excitotoxicity and loss of hippocampal neurons."},"links":[{"term":"Domoic acid","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11722"},{"term":"excitotoxicity","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11766"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 846 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11579\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11579\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11579\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'amnesic shellfish poisoning' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11579","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-14T22:20:19+00:00"}}