X-Message-Number: 12600
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: great Darwin talk

In Message #12595 Mike Darwin <> wrote:
Subject: Sorry, no "major breakthrough" today

Thanks Mike, for your great talk about past research you, Greg Fahy and
others did.

> Brains in particular were creamed (literally)
by membrane toxicity, pretty much no matter what I did (massive foaming of
aerated media on DMSO removal indicating membrane lysis).
<
I understand catechins and their various derivatives have a profound
effect on stabilizing cell membranes, and can even block ethanol induced
membrane disruption. I'm doing some fruit fly experiments looking further
at this.

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