X-Message-Number: 9551
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:50:23 -0400
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Hippocampal Slice Project

The project approval by the host research institute is coming along
nicely with approval already given by the Animal Care and Use Review
Committee. The Institute for Neural Cryobiology (INC) has also received
a formal grant application from the research institute asking INC to
supply the equipment and the expertise of Dr Fahy and others to the
project.    

While I know that some additional donations have been sent in for this
project (totaling about $5,000) and I expect to find them and a few
others when I return to southern California in 10 days, there has been
less enthusiasm and support for this project than I had expected.

Today, it occurred to me that in the formality of the full project
description and the need to make it oriented to the establishment, it's
importance may have been lost to most cryonicists. Therefore, I wish to
state in no uncertain terms and to make it very clear what the
importance of this project is for cryonics.

>From the point of view of cryonics, the hippocampal slice vitrification
project, if successful,

WILL DISCOVER THE COMBINATION OF CPAS, AND THE COOLING AND REWARMING
METHOD NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE FULLY REVERSIBLE BRAIN CRYOPRESERVATION!

If this is not accomplished by the end of the project's budgeted time,
our plan is to keep going with the same model (or with improvements made
during the project) UNTIL WE SUCCEED. This model is now seen as the
*best approach* for making those basic discoveries needed for
reversibility of brain function. Only after successful CPA and
cooling/rewarming methods are developed for brain slices will a whole
brain perfusion model be developed for reversibility of function.

Again, I urge *everyone* who values his/her life and wishes to see it
extended, to support this very essential first step on the road to the
revolutionary attainment of perfected suspended animation.

-- Paul --

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