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   ocr: nerve and muscle. For this reason, the frog toxins have become important tools in biomedical research aimed at better understanding and treatment of neurological and muscular disorders. Potentially beneficial compounds discovered in frog skin to date include painkillers much more potent than morphine, broad spectrum antibiotics, and digitalislike sub- stances. Only small quantities can be RAe obtained from the frogs and chemists are synthesizing large amounts of such potentially useful compounds in hopes of developing new drugs. In addition, some of the frog alkaloids and other compounds from ...