X-Message-Number: 25229
From: "Brian Wowk" <>
Subject: Re: Hypothermia
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:20:27 -0800

 wrote:>>Did you forget about these experiments Brian?

<The objectives of the experiment were (1) to duplicate procedures used in
the preceding suspension, (2) increase skills of the suspension and rescue
team, and (3) establish a baseline for future work. Like Fred Jr.'s, the
dog's suspension was head-only. One of the notable results was to recover
some functioning brain cells after cooling to liquid nitrogen temperature
and thawing (with cell viability verified by dye uptake).><<     Apparently 
I did forget, and I stand corrected.  Alcor did freeze a dog back in 
1977:http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/researchhistory.html    But as this 
same article goes on to explain, a much more sophisticated series of 
hypothermia experiments followed a decade later.  Those experiments are what 
led to the hypothermic transport solution still used by Alcor today (MHP2)--  
a solution considerably more advanced than the plain salt water used in the 
recently published Safar Center research!

---Brian Wowk 



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