X-Message-Number: 1978
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Christopher Kashina Patil)
Subject: Antifreeze proteins
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 00:59:31 GMT

Recently I've read about so-called "antifreeze" proteins found in the
blood of antarctic and sub-antarctic fishes. Apparently these proteins
have moieties that bind the surfaces of ice crystals and prevent the growth
of the crystals.

There are a lot of threads in this group about the difficulties of freezing 
big animals due to ice-crystal-caused cell damage. Have any efforts been
made to anyone's knowledge of exploring the effects of antifreeze
proteins (either exogenous or endogenous, as in a transgenic animal) on
facility of freezing a higher vertebrate?
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Chris Patil				Stanford University
		Department of Biological Sciences
					Stanford, CA 94305

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