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ReviewToxins2025

Health and Environmental Impacts of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins from Freshwater to Seawater.

Tamara Villalobos, Benjamín Suárez-Isla, Carlos Garcia

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Review in Toxins, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tamara VillalobosLaboratory of Marine Toxins, Physiology and Biophysics Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 8330111, Chile.
Benjamín Suárez-IslaLaboratory of Marine Toxins, Physiology and Biophysics Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 8330111, Chile.
Carlos GarciaLaboratory of Marine Toxins, Physiology and Biophysics Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 8330111, Chile.ORCID 0000-0001-7594-2156

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) are a natural phenomenon produced mainly by the interaction between natural and anthropogenic events. CyanoHABs are characterized by the production of cyanotoxins that can have harmful effects on different species within the food web and even affect human health. Among the most prevalent toxin groups worldwide are microcystins (MCs), anatoxins (ATXs), cylindrospermopsins (CYNs) and nodularins (NODs), which are characterized as toxins with hepatotoxic, neurotoxic, and cytotoxic effects. This review summarizes and analyzes research on the influence of cyanoHABs, the main toxin-producing cyanobacteria and the most prevalent cyanotoxins in freshwater and marine bodies, highlighting their global occurrence, toxicology, and bioaccumulation dynamics in vectors of the food web, and the main cases of acute and chronic intoxications in humans. This review is useful for understanding the dynamics of cyanoHABs' interaction with the ecosystem and their impact on human health, and how the implementation of a surveillance and management framework for cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins could generate vital information for stakeholders to establish health guidelines on the risks and hazards of cyanoHABs for the ecosystem and humans.

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Bacterial ToxinsCyanobacteriaFresh WaterMarine ToxinsSeawaterAnimalsCyanobacteria ToxinsHarmful Algal BloomHumansMicrocystinsBacterial ToxinsCyanobacteria ToxinsMarine ToxinsMicrocystinsanatoxinsbioaccumulationcyanobacteriacyanotoxinscylindrospermopsinsecosystemhealth riskhumanmicrocystinnodularinsstakeholders

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PMID40137899
PMCPMC11945519

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