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#337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More

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The Benefits of Toads as a Source of Drugs

There's a lot of basic scientific questions that haven't been answered about the toads. I would love to see people, you know, studying the rate that they regenerate the venom or how they respond to the milking. With pufferfish, they've actually evolved a mutation in their sodium ion channel that makes them insensitive to the toxicity of TTX. Is the same true of the 5-HT1A receptor in the Bufrall various toad? Or have they also evolved a different type of serotonin receptor that makes themensitive to their own venom? Those are the sorts of things that I would like to be doing with the toads answering these basic scientific questions.

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