When the toxin from MC-LR was added to the plant's surrounding hypotonic growth medium, the antibody bound to the toxin, rendering it harmless.

But not all microcystin congeners are alike in terms of toxicity. The most abundant and most studied congener in Lake Erie, known as MC-LR, has been shown in recent research to be somewhere in the ...

Microcystin-LR (MC-LR), even in very small quantities, is suspected to cause liver damage and possibly liver cancer. The substance and others like it are among the leading causes of biological ...

A guideline of 1 µg/ has been set by the World Health Organization (WHO) in order to regulate MC-LR, which is a marker for cyanobaterias, in drinking water. This work illustrates an LC-MS/MS technique ...