Human Hibernation Treatment On the Way

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Human Hibernation Treatment On the Way

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/mgh-ssa032008.php
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Anesthesiology researchers at Mass General Hospital in Boston are using mice to perfect a method of suspended animation to be used on people. Minute concentrations of hydrogen sulfide put mice into a state of reversible suspended animation. While still at an early stage, the research points to use of similar treatments for humans during surgery and while recuperating from life-threatening injuries and illnesses. Exposed to just 80 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide, heart rates and metabolic rates dropped abruptly-within ten minutes of exposure. Low metabolic rates can protect the brain and heart from irreversible tissue death after heart attacks, strokes, and during prolonged surgeries.

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