On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Atropine, along with scopolamine and hyoscyamine, is found in the Datura stramonium plant, which gives hallucinogenic effects and is also known as locoweed.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
The chromosomal basis of independent assortment.
Fruits attractive to animal seed dispersal agents.