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Subject: Hippocampal Slice Cryopreservation Project results in published paper
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:16:56 US/Eastern

 For those people who donated money to the 
Institute for Neural Cryobiology five or more
years ago, I am pleased to announce that results
of the Hippocampal Slice Cryopreservation Project
(HSCP) have finally been published in the 
April 2006 issue of the journal CRYOBIOLOGY,
as "Cryopreservation of rat hippocampal slices by 
vitrification" Pichugin Y, Fahy GM, Morin R.
(Cryobiology 2006 Apr;52(2):228-40):



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16403489&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

The entire paper is available on-line as a PDF file:

http://www.21cm.com/pdfs/hippo_published.pdf

 On my website there is a summary of the HSCP
which includes much of the background research
that did not get included in the CRYOBIOLOGY paper.
I also give a short summary of the results of the
CRYOBIOLOGY paper:

http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/hscp.html

  Again, I give great thanks to those who contributed
money to this research. Dr. Pichugin who is the lead author
(and who is currently our cryobiologist researcher 
at the Cryonics Institute) gained experience in this 
research project which he has applied to his research
at the Cryonics Institute. The results of this research
were also of value for 21CM in the development of its
vitrification solutions. 

  This research was a great step forward in the technology
of brain vitrification and I am pleased that your donations
and the Institute for Neural Cryobiology were able to 
fund the work. 

       -- Ben Best, President
          Institute for Neural Cryobiology

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