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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2312