X-Message-Number: 7274
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:42:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: re: Alcor's 33rd patient

>From  Message #7265
> Eventually, the patient was straight frozen (neuro) without 
> cryoprotective perfusion.
> 
  Maybe the local mortician should have been used to at least inject some 
ethylene glycol antifreeze into the corpse.
  Another idea might be for Alcor to have on stock a special 
cryoprotective solution with a very high penetration rate into tissue for 
just such last minute situations. 

  Cryoprotectant          Membrane Permeability
   glycerol                         1
   ethylene glycol                  5.8
   ethylene glycol monoethyl ether 22 
   triethylene glycol diacetate    44

Reference: The Journal of General Physiology 62: 714-736 1973


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