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unusual facts about lethal dose


Lethal dose

For instance, mouse tissue is approximately fifty times less responsive than human tissue to the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider.


Death chair

Gas chamber, which has a chair located inside the airtight chamber, to restrain the prisoner while he or she is asphyxiated with lethal gas.


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Entolimod

The FDA granted entolimod both Fast Track and Orphan Drug status for reducing the risk of death following a potentially lethal dose of total body irradiation during or after a radiation disaster.

Flour beetle

An experiment carried out by MythBusters revealed they are able to survive 1000 gray (100,000 rad), 100 times the immediate lethal dose of radiation for humans, in 10% of the cases.

Phenytoin

In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, the protagonist (played by Matt Damon) takes Miporol, a fictional brand name for diphenylhydantoin, after having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

Tania Emery

She had roles in the films LD 50 Lethal Dose and Den of Lions, and in 2004 appeared as Frida in a stage production of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse, London.