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A neurotransmitter that promotes the propagation of electrical impulses from one nerve cell to another. Levels of acetycholine in the hippocampus can quantify the amount of memory an individual has accumulated. Stimulating the production of acetycholine in the hypothalamus stimulates a person's aggressive tendencies. (TOS: The Immunity Syndrome; TNG: All Good Things...; VOY: The Chute)
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| A corrosive gaseous chemical which is toxic to humanoids. (VOY: Threshold) |
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Adrenaline was used to treat radiation sickness before hyronalin. There was highly promising early research, but they abandoned it when hyronalin was discovered. (TOS: The Deadly Years)
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| A drug used to treat allergic reactions. |
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| The droppings of this animal contain the greatest concentration of regenerative enzymes anywhere. Used in the 22nd century. |
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A poisonous mushroom native to Earth. It has a red or orange cap with white patches and if ingested can cause profuse sweating, convulsions, and even death.
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Also known as liquor amnii or the "waters", the fluid that surrounds the fetus in mammalian pregnancies. Antibodies in a human female's amnion were used to create a retrovirus to combat Barclay's Proto-Morphosis Syndrome
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| A drug used as a restorative. |
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| anaprovaline | |
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| This drug was used as a pain killer in the 22nd century. (ENT: The Breach) |
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| A medicine taken to allow one to drink alcoholic beverages without becoming intoxicated. |
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| Any foreign substance in the body that triggers an immune response. |
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Asinolyathin is used as a pain-killer for muscle spasms. (DS9: Visionary) It is also a muscle relaxant. (Book: Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits: Selar: 'Q'uandary by Terri Osborne) Asinolyathin can be used with morphenolog. (ST: Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels)
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