X-Message-Number: 29342
From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:29:40 -0700
Subject: Ice blockers tested by CI; blood-brain barrier

At 

   http://www.cryonics.org/research/CI-VM-1.html

it says that Pichugin tested 21CM's ice blockers and didn't get
interesting results.  The most interesting sentence there is:

>Dr. Pichugin does not believe that these increments of increased
>viability with ice blockers justify the increase in viscosity or cost
>if they were added to the CI-VM-1 formula, especially in
>light of the fact that ice blockers cannot cross cell membranes or the
>blood-brain barrier.

Is it true that 21CM's ice blockers don't cross the blood-brain
barrier?  If so, then how can they be useful?

-- 
Tim Freeman               http://www.fungible.com           
"TIM has an eerily human personality..."  -- Evil Genius glossary

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