Re:Scientists Find Cocaine in Shrimps
by gus_massa on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:03AM
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[IANAB] Get the minimal dose for humans or rats and reduce it linearly to the weight of the shrimps. Perhaps it's better to use the concentration of cocaine in the human brain instead of the total dose divided by the total weigh. (Shrimps don't have bones, is that important?, IANAB)
The neurotransmisors are more similar in all animals than expected, so I guess a similar concentration in the brain is a good assumption. 1/1000 of the human concentration is probably safe for shrimps.
An alternative is to study it in the lab. Get a few shrimps and get them high. How hard can it be?
My guess is that this study is more useful for the police to get a general map of drug use than to see if shrimps are in danger. I guess that the shrimps concentrate the drugs, so it's easy to collect some water and filter the shrimps and put them in a blender, than collecting a bigger sample of water and concentrating it.
The neurotransmisors are more similar in all animals than expected, so I guess a similar concentration in the brain is a good assumption. 1/1000 of the human concentration is probably safe for shrimps.
An alternative is to study it in the lab. Get a few shrimps and get them high. How hard can it be?
My guess is that this study is more useful for the police to get a general map of drug use than to see if shrimps are in danger. I guess that the shrimps concentrate the drugs, so it's easy to collect some water and filter the shrimps and put them in a blender, than collecting a bigger sample of water and concentrating it.