X-Message-Number: 2312
From:  (Nick Szabo)
Subject: CRYONICS: Interesting books
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 03:55:08 -0700 (PDT)


I recently found a couple of interesting books relevant to cryonics:

_Quantitative Cryofixation_, W.B. Bald,  IOP Publishing 1987.
	All about freezing biological samples for microscopy.  The
	main goal is to preserve structural information,
	and many techniques towards that end are described. 
	Cryofixation may become widely used in biological and
	medical research since it can be used to freeze-frame 
	biological processes "in the act".  Some of the techniques
	look applicable to optimizing cryonics both for the analysis of 
	suspension protocols and for optimizing the structural 
	information preserved by those protocols.  I hope to see some 
	more recent work in this field; since it dates to 1987 STM is 
	only briefly mentioned.  Anybody have plans to look at 
	vitrified mammal neurons with STM?

_Neurochemical Correlates of Cerebral Ischemia_, Bazan et. al.
	ed., Plenum 1990.
	All about the biochemistry of stroke and brain
	death.  For example, there's extensive coverage
	of reperfusion damage (which seems to cause more
	damage than the original hypoxia).

Nick Szabo				

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