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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The human body's pharmacokinetics are quite varied. Our hair holds onto drugs longer than our urine, blood, or saliva. For example, alcohol can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days after it was consumed. The same is true for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.