chapter 1 Historic Considerations Regarding Seafood Safety / chapter 2 Diversity of Marine and Freshwater Algal Toxins / chapter 3 Nonneurotoxic Toxins -- chapter 4 Neurotoxic Toxins -- chapter 5 Calcium Channels for Exocytosis -- chapter 6 Ecobiology, Classification, and Origin -- chapter 7 Chemistry and Mechanism of Action -- chapter 8 Chemical Analysis of PSP Toxins -- chapter 9 Biological Detection Methods -- chapter 10 Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP): Toxicology and Kinetics -- chapter 11 Detection Methods for Okadaic Acid and Analogues / chapter 12 Mechanism of Action and Toxicology / chapter 13 Neoplastic Activity of DSP Toxins: The Effects of Okadaic Acid and Related Compounds on Cell Proliferation: Tumor Promotion or Induction of Apoptosis? / chapter 14 Pectenotoxins and Yessotoxins: Chemistry, Toxicology, Pharmacology, and Analysis / chapter 15 Ecobiology, Clinical Symptoms, and Mode of Action of Domoic Acid, an Amnesic Shellfish Toxin / chapter 16 Pharmacology of Domoic Acid / chapter 17 Molecular Biology of Kainate Receptors: Targets of Domoic Acid Toxicity / chapter 18 Chemical and Biological Detection Methods / chapter 19 Ciguatera Toxins: Chemistry and Detection / chapter 20 Ciguatera Toxins: Pharmacology of Toxins Involved in Ciguatera and Related Fish Poisonings / chapter 21 Ciguatera Toxins: Toxinology / chapter 22 Ciguatera Toxins -- chapter 23 Brevetoxins: Chemistry, Mechanism of Action, and Methods of Detection / chapter 24 Chemistry and Detection / chapter 25 Mechanism of Action, Pharmacology, and Toxicology / chapter 26 Freshwater Cyanobacterial Neurotoxins: Ecobiology, Chemistry, and Detection / chapter 27 Freshwater Neurotoxins: Mechanisms of Action, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Impacts on Aquaculture / chapter 28 Freshwater Hepatotoxins: Ecobiology and Classification / chapter 29 Freshwater Hepatotoxins: Chemistry and Detection / chapter 30 Freshwater Hepatotoxins: Microcystin and Nodularin, Mechanisms of Toxicity and Effects on Health / chapter 31 Freshwater Hepatotoxins: Geographical Distribution of Toxic Cyanobacteria / chapter 32 New Toxins on the Horizon / chapter 33 Marine Toxins as a Starting Point for Drugs / chapter 34 Incidence of Marine Toxins on Industrial Activity / chapter 35 Remote Sensing and Computerized Mapping for Development of Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction Methods