X-Message-Number: 4434 From: "Joseph J. Strout" <> Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: preservation of brain tissue Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:57:27 -0700 Message-ID: <> Hello All, Can anyone tell me what work has been done towards the reversible cryopreservation of small blocks of brain tissue? The application I'm thinking of is physiological experiments. Many researchers have to go through a large number of animals (usually rats or mice) when doing experiments on brain slices, because the tissue needs to be alive. This requires one animal per trial (when trials are done successively). If we could freeze and revive slices, we could reduce the number of animals needed by a factor of 10 or 100. Thanks for any pointers, -- Joe ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD | | http://sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/ | `------------------------------------------------------------------' Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4434