From: Tony B. Csoka (csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 16 1997 - 17:59:52 MST
Natasha Vita More:
>Dr. White explained, that because of the
>nonreconstitution of the spinal column, the brain transplant surgery
>would
>be a same-same physical situation unless Reeves' (for example) body was
>deteriorating rapidly -- essentially dying, the brain transplant could be
>then put into another body but it would still be paralyzed due to the
>spinal
>nonreconstitution.
Was there anybody there working on the spinal reconnection aspect of the
surgery? Obviously this is just as important as the blood flow. I presume
they finished up with paralysed animals in the experiments you mentioned?
TBC
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