X-Message-Number: 6893
From: Brian Wowk <>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:18:46 -0500
Subject: Visser pilot studies

        Before spending $100,000 on the Visser work (without a
target organ even being specified?), why not spend a few thousand
dollars on some pilot experiments to see if the CPA is useful
for cryonics?  
 
        A few months ago I was harshly criticized by Visser and 
Ettinger for questioning whether her CPA would work at slow
cooling rates.  I still think this is a critical question
(a concern echoed by Thomas Donaldson on yesterday's CryoNet).
Now that Alcor has the Visser rat heart model up and running
in their lab, why not try repeating the rat heart experiment
at the slow cooling rates large organs demand?  If the
experiment can't be made to work, that's a show-stopper right
there for the cardiac application of the technology.
 
        Most importantly, let's see some brain EMs, and CNS
toxicity studies.  All the above could be done for a few
thousand dollars, and if successful would make it much easier
to raise vastly larger sums.
 
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Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
   http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/

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