X-Message-Number: 4541 From: Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:24:54 -0400 Subject: SCI. CRYONICS Pichugin report Dr. Yuri Pichugin in the Ukraine has given us another brief report. Partly paraphrasing as I understand it: Non-ischemic rabbit brain pieces, with varying glycerol concentrations and various times of low temperature exposure, were cooled at about 1 deg C/min to - 196'C, then rewarmed. "The thawed tissue showed both spontaneous and evoked bioelectric activity in most cases after washing out from glycerol and their reanimation in culture of slices. A computer recorded all bioelectric activity of the reanimated brain slices." A detailed report is expected by July 7, and will be made available. Subsequent experiments planned include freezing of non-ischemic cat heads and human brain tissue by the CI method. Robert Ettinger Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4541