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Dart poison frogs and their toxins

Authors

PATOČKA Jiří SCHWANHAEUSER WULFF Kräuff Rainer MARINI PALOMEQUE María Victoria

Year of publication 1999
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The ASA Newsletter
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web http://www.asanltr.com/ASANews-99/995frogs.htm
Field Pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry
Keywords Dart; poison; frogs; toxins; Dendrobatidae; Batrachotoxins; Pumiliotoxins; bioterrorism;Indians; South America; blowguns.
Description Dart poison frogs, poison-arrow frogs, poison frogs and dendrobatid frogs are all names for small, brightly-colored frogs from Central and South America. These are members of the Dendrobatidae family, which secrete poisons from glands in their skin. The Emberá and Noanamá Chocó Indians use these toxic secretions for poisoning darts used in blowguns [1]. The family Dendrobatidae has eight genera: Dendrobates, Phyllobates, Aromobates, Epidobates, Minyobates, Manophryne, Nephelobates and Colosthetus, with 179 species of dart poison frog known already.

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