Talk:Batrachotoxin

Copyvio
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
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
Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.128.37.171 (talk) 01:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

Pronounciation
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

 * One freshly caught frog has up to 2 milligrams of toxin, or 50 times the lethal dose in humans.

Please do not restore this information to the article without a citation.-- Birgitte SB  04:10, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Statements such as "Extrapolating from the 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).

Assessment comment
Substituted at 09:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Redundancy
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
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)