X-Message-Number: 8427 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:30:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: cooking with adonitol Adonitol has been used to advantage in cryopreservation. Water is added to plasticize it so that cooking it is not required to liquify it. :) Cryoprotectant Percentage Survival of Frozen/Thawed Rat Embryos 0.3 M 1.0 M DMSO 20% 60% glycerol 16 52 adonitol 67 88 sorbitol 58 60 Reference: "Cryoprotective Effect of Polyols on Rat Embryos During Two-Step Freezing" Cryobiology 29: 332-341 1992 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8427